Ping?
Rather odd reasoning. You have to wonder if there was something else.
Demon alcohol
A celebrated high fived over scourge
I wonder what percentage of drinkers develop problems from it
January 2014 article on how “Elevation” is run:
“At the great majority of churches - in Charlotte, in the Southern Baptist Convention, even in the cutting-edge world of megachurches - the congregation or elected lay leaders make the final decisions on budgets, debt and salaries.
Elevation does have a five-person governing board. But it offers none of these seats to those who actually fill up the church’s theater-like sanctuaries every Saturday and Sunday.
Instead, Furtick and four out-of-town megachurch pastors direct the church’s $25 million budget, its ambitious building program, its debt and a host of other matters.
This “board of overseers” also sets the salary and housing allowance for the 33-year-old pastor, using a compensation study of a range of churches that’s conducted by a law firm the church won’t identify.”
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/living/religion/article89164002.html#storylink=cpy
I cannot imagine WANTING to be part of a church that hides salaries and has no local oversight!
Rev. Noble’s alcoholism is not very relevant to Elevation Church. Plenty of other Southern Baptist ministers (as well as clergy of every other stripe) have had problems with the drink.
I’m underwhelmed by Rev. Furtick, but the Charlotte Observer is an anti-Christian piece of Democrat propaganda trash. I haven’t bought one since my snake died.