One evening in the mid-1980s, Haggard found a handful of congregants praying over a 5-gallon bucket of cooking oil. They said God had told them to anoint the city, and so they did, block by block -- using a garden sprayer.
Now that’s just weird. Having just had chalk blessed for an Epiphany door blessing, I think I can speak with some knowledge about various rituals and blessings. But the oil with a garden sprayer thing sounds slippery and dangerous. Although, in the summer, it might help with mosquito larvae in standing water…