Evangelicals stand with Trump: 'God always chose people that had flaws'
by Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times
Dec 23, 2019
3 minutes
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - The shimmering Christmas trees flanked the eight-person band as they belted out a soft-rock version of "Joy to the World."
Some of the hundreds in the crowd stretched out an arm and swayed with the hymns on Sunday at Riverside's Harvest Christian Fellowship, the flagship of a booming Southern California evangelical church.
Guests shuffled to their seats. Ushers collected tithes. Then Pastor Greg Laurie - beamed in via video feed - was met with applause after he announced the church saw 19,000
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