Controversial Pastor Who Owns Two Rolls-Royces Pleads For 200,000

DailyMail(UK) ^ | March 13, 2015 | JOEL CHRISTIE

[Steelfish]

Controversial Pastor Who Owns Two Rolls-Royces Pleads For 200,000 church supporters to donate '$300 or more' EACH so that he can buy a $65M private jet 'to better spread the gospel of Jesus Christ' Reverend Creflo Dollar is the head of World Changers Church International The 53-year-old preaches 'that God wants to bless the faithful with earthly riches' and the church has about 30,000 members He has an estimated net worth of $27 million Has appealed online for 200,000 people to donate $300 so he can buy Gulfstream G650, worth $65 million and favored by billionaires Says the plane is essential for him to 'reach a lost and dying world for the Lord Jesus Christ' By JOEL CHRISTIE 13 March 2015

The founder and leader of a controversial Atlanta-based megachurch has appealed online for 200,000 people to each donate '$300 or more' so that he can buy a $65 million private jet favored by high-flying billionaires.

Reverend Creflo Dollar, 53, is the head of the World Changers Church International, a Christian ministry centered around the prosperity gospel, which preaches that God wants to bless the faithful with earthly riches. The televangelist, who is one of the most prominent African-American preachers in the United States, this week put a five-minute video up on his website pledging for donations for a Gulfstream G650 - which claims to be the fastest plane ever built in civilian aviation - so that 'World Changers Church International can continue to blanket the globe with the Gospel of grace'.

Dollar - who is known to own two Rolls Royce's and multi-million dollar homes in Atlanta and New Jersey - last hit headlines in 2012, after being arrested for allegedly attacking his 15-year-old daughter.

[Steelfish]

This is one more example from the time of Benny Hinn. Jimmy Swaggart, Rev. Schulle, Joel Osteen etc of the curse of the Reformation where very Tom, Dick, and Harry and Rev. Jeremiah Wright feel they can crack open the pages of the Bible and offer their "own" authentic interpretations. So true what the brilliant English essayist Hillaire Belloc wrote in his "Heresies" that unlike other heresies, "Protestantism spawned a cluster of heresies." And one would add a "cluster of scam artists"

[MeshugeMikey]

Dollar...went to ora roberts university...where he may have learned a few tricks

I remember oral....begging for a large sum of money...which if he did not get he was sure the Lord would take him home...OR SO HE SAID!

[gaijin]

All I need for Jesus is my own JET..!

[Star Traveler]

DUPLICATE POST ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3267685/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3267674/posts

[hondact200]

Catholicism has its own heresies to - indulgences, traveling relics that had a required fee (bones of a apostle), praying to Mary (come about in the late 1800s). There are scam artists there too. Protestantism did not span the scam artists it is the peddling of charltans far and wide. look at the politicians of today they spread a lot of manure

[BigCinBigD]

There’s a sucker born every Minute...

[Mr Ramsbotham]

These charlatans dote upon the fact that Christianity is a religion that requires a profession of belief in order for its adherents to achieve salvation. And there’s no more facile way for a Christian to prove his bona fides before the Almighty than by giving money to “charity.” I’m reminded of that scene in the movie “In God We Trust” where the monk played by Marty Feldman, needing a job, takes one at a Christian novelty shop where his assigned task is to nail the Christ figures onto crosses which Christians will pay money for in order to show their devotion.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Oh, Miss Crabtree ... I feel it incumbent upon myself to draw your attention to the fact that Steelfish made a duplicate post. And also, you forgot to give out the homework assignment for tonight.

[impimp]

Indulgences are not against scripture. Praying to Mary came about early on in the church. And if someone is hustling someone to see relics then how is that a Catholic heresy?