The Catholic Church had corrupt popes in medieval times, but they also had St. Francis of Assisi; the Lutheran Church started off on fire for God until Luther turned antisemitic; Richard Baxter had a fruitful Puritan publishing ministry while strangely enough remaining a licensed Anglican priest, and the same could be said of John Wesley; believe it or not Charles Finney was never defrocked from the Presbyterian Church even though he preached like a Wesleyan lawyer; and David Wilkerson maintained his Assembly of God credentials for 90% of his life, just so it would continue to open doors for evangelistic ministry bookings at churches and conferences. Even through the Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart sex scandals, he still kept his AG preachers’ license because of the doors that it opened. But he didn’t use it for pastoral ministry until he planted Times Square Church in the ’80s, which is when he started to feel the AG squeeze. That’s when he decided not to renew his AG credentials. –J.B.