Maybe if Joyce preached and dressed like this, they'd send her a billion instead of investigating her.
Posted on 11/06/2007 4:41:44 AM PST by Clintons Are White Trash
WASHINGTON — The top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee has launched a wide-ranging investigation into the financial dealings of six TV evangelists, including Joyce Meyer, the popular preacher who has built a $124-million-a-year empire headquartered in Fenton.
On Monday, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, asked Meyer to provide his staff with documents detailing the finances of the Joyce Meyer Ministries, including the religious group's compensation to Meyer, her husband and other family members, as well as an accounting of their housing allowances, gifts and credit card statements for the last several years.
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I would definitely say it’s pot calling kettle black. Politicians and televangelists have a lot in common. Both want your money for questionable reasons.
What she does not do, at least in my experience, is refuse to fix something once she knows it needs fixing.
Her employees don’t have to work there. They choose to, and evidently the price is right. However, perception matters. Joyce Meyer needs to address the basis of that perception and, if merited, alter that basis.
I, for one, am not going to sit in judgement on her. I will judge her actions here, however, as to their propriety. I will base subsequent decisions upon that basis.
I will also allow for the fact that she is not perfect, and may, in fact, get some things wrong.
What I don’t have to do, and won’t do, is react solely on the fact that a politician has found an opportunity to get some ink, or on the rags that “without bias” report(?) the ensuing “facts”.
It’s obviously wrong what these sheisters are doing, but it’s hard to feel too sorry for the folks that keep throwing their hard-earned money at people like Hinn and Meyer so that they can emulate Jesus by buying marble toilet seats and getting face lifts. There’s a sucker born every minute, I guess.
I do not disagree with your premise. I do not agree with your assumptions.
I will agree that we do disagree, but not that we agree to disagree.
Garner Ted, Rex, Oral....times don’t change, only the people do.
It's in their interest to probe every dollar circulating that hasn't made it into their greedy fat sweaty hands
Meyer, Osteen, and Warren ... sounds like an antiChrist’s legal team.
The slimy lying cheating politicians who steal from us daily are not happy that the ministries are not required to court them with lobbyists and donations. They want their cut of the pie out there.
I know they're not doing this out of concern for me, the taxpayer.
Would you agree that a ministry (thew tax exempt org) ought not be buying multi-thousand dollar toilets and furnishings? I can see paying Meyer a salary, even an excessive one, form which she can spend as she sees fit. But the tax exepmt org ought be more fiscally accountable.
Maybe if Joyce preached and dressed like this, they'd send her a billion instead of investigating her.
What assumptions?
Maybe but I don't know if that outfit comes with rhinestones.
What you said.
I don’t know any details, but it does seem excessive at first glance.
I wonder if the ministry really in fact bought a multi-thousand dollar toilet, or if something’s been lost in the translation. Where’s the original reference for the toilet, anyway?
It’s good to be sceptical when high-profile Christians are trashed.
That said, it sure would be good for her ministry to become a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA).
Do you have a reference for that? Or are you lying about it?
The truth may be offensive enough. No need to lie about someone to make them look worse, Thinkin' Gal.
a) (and she isn’t, she is preaching the Word Faith heresy)
b) then nothing she does is good, no matter how it looks to the world.
I do like the question that Sen. Grassley asked, what is a tax-exempt purpose of these expensive items? What is the justification for that sort of item? Small churches are struggling to survive and this makes it more difficult for all those legitimate churches.
Those are not assumptions. They are easily verified. b flows from a which is public knowledge.
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