Bishop Long needs to look no further to find inspiration and hope than in his own genre for his chances of a comeback than the reviled and rebounded Jimmy Swaggart. The public venom against Swaggart in the 1980s was profound in its depth and scope because he had engineered the downfall of other nationally-prominent televangelist, most particularly Jim Bakker, before he was found to be patronizing prostitutes.
It took a minute, but today you can actually find Swaggart back on TV on a weekly basis.