Marjoe was a precocious child preacher with extraordinary talents, who was immensely popular in the American South. His parents earned large sums of money from his preaching until he outgrew his novelty. Marjoe rejoined the ministry as a young adult solely as a means of earning a living, and not as a believer. He spent the next several years using his fame and status as an evangelist to defraud those who believed his message out of a small fortune through both large tent revivals and televangelism.

Eventually, Gortner suffered a crisis of conscience and decided to renounce his former ways, offering the film crew unrestricted access to him during his final revival tour, repeatedly admitting on camera that he was a con-artist and revealing the tactics he and other evangelists used to swindle money from people.

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