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Steven Furtick Wears 2 Thousand-Dollar Sweater During Easter Sermon
Disntr ^ | April 10, 2024 | staff

Posted on 04/12/2024 1:29:01 AM PDT by Morgana

If there has been a more blatant example of Matthew 19:24 being played out in modern times than the Furtick family, I’ve not seen it. Jesus’s words were clear, “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

It’s one thing to cover your expenses, and there’s nothing wrong with earning a living in ministry. But this isn’t ministry, it’s charlatanry, and when you’re bilking your followers for millions of dollars by preaching a false, ear-tickling gospel, one must ask who are what you really serve: God or Mammon?

But if you’ve been wondering where all that money he’s bilking from his followers is going, just look at his style. Heard of the Instagram page, Preachers n’ Sneakers? Well, this is Preachers n’ Sweaters—2,000-dollar sweaters, to be exact.

During his Easter sermon, our friends at Protestia pointed out that Furtick essentially preached himself into the resurrection narrative, “where His grave represents YOUR depression and failure, and Galilee represents a better life YOU want to live.” We call that narcigesis—narcisistic eisegesis.

And he does this while wearing a $1,950 Neiman Marcus sweater.

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I would not pay 2 cents for that gay ass sweater
1 posted on 04/12/2024 1:29:01 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

That’s a terrible looking sweater.


2 posted on 04/12/2024 1:34:40 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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To: Jonty30

I so agree and I can’t believe it would cost that much!


3 posted on 04/12/2024 1:39:41 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

He certainly looks gay in that sweater.


4 posted on 04/12/2024 1:53:08 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Morgana

“I can’t believe it would cost that much!”
The sweater doesn’t cost that much. It’s the “Neiman Marcus” tag that does.


5 posted on 04/12/2024 1:54:32 AM PDT by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
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To: Morgana

I did a security shift at a high end fashion store overnight. The stuff was not any higher quality than what you might buy at a target, but the prices were unreal.

Like $2000 for a pair of sneakers, made the same way as a pair of sneakers. $5000 for a blazer jacket. Stuff like that.


6 posted on 04/12/2024 1:55:18 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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To: Morgana

It's advertised as a holey sweater...

7 posted on 04/12/2024 2:02:20 AM PDT by null and void (There’s only one thing that’s for sure. Everyone on all sides a conflict will be happy to lie to you)
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To: Morgana

The only thing worse than that sweater is this ad-laden blog


8 posted on 04/12/2024 2:04:02 AM PDT by struggle
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To: Morgana

I’ve never heard of him before. The price might not matter, since it could’ve been a gift, but his message and his look-at-me attire doesn’t seem to glorify God or what Jesus did for all of humanity.


9 posted on 04/12/2024 2:06:09 AM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: null and void

The price? Holey Moley!


10 posted on 04/12/2024 2:31:45 AM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Jonty30
I was up in Aspen at the ski resort.

One of the shops there was selling a WWII style flight jacket for close to $10,000.

It was a really well made jacket - outstanding workmanship with the highest grade leathers and hardware.

I recognized the workmanship and details and it came from one of the premier makers of leather flight jackets. They were very expensive and sold for about $1500 under the original makers label.

This shop marked the jacket up around $9000.00 and the snooty sales guy derided me as loser unless I had the wherewithal and willingness to pay his price for the jacket. Lots of people up in Aspen with a lot more money than sense.

11 posted on 04/12/2024 2:39:17 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: Morgana
Ironically, there may come a time and a place in Mr Furtick’s existence where it may be a tad to warm to wear that sweater, but wear it he must.
12 posted on 04/12/2024 2:42:56 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: Morgana

Jesus is coming back and boy, is he pissed. This imposter will be one of the first to ride an express elevator to Hell.


13 posted on 04/12/2024 2:46:25 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: rdcbn1

The only message I get from these clothing at these prices is the psychological reward of being able to afford to pay 15 times the price what a normal person pays for the same thing.


14 posted on 04/12/2024 2:46:34 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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He’s proud of that sweater and he’s proud of the cost of that sweater. There’s a serman in there someplace...


15 posted on 04/12/2024 2:54:09 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: skr

He’s with Elevation church..,,I love their Worship…him, not so much.


16 posted on 04/12/2024 2:55:13 AM PDT by mikelets456
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To: rdcbn1
I was up in Aspen at the ski resort.

One of the shops there was selling a WWII style flight jacket for close to $10,000.

While I also think the price is ridiculous, imagine the costs of running a shop in Aspen.

The rental, hiring help, taxes, utility bills, insurance for all of the merchandise and the store, fees, etc.

17 posted on 04/12/2024 3:05:07 AM PDT by Mogger (AreIn bookstores is a very expensive, beautifully bound in green leather Holy Koran. If one was goin)
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To: Morgana
and there’s nothing wrong with earning a living in ministry.

"Your surprise is waiting."

18 posted on 04/12/2024 3:10:31 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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To: Morgana

That’s an “I make more money and I’m better than you” sweater.


19 posted on 04/12/2024 3:14:13 AM PDT by albie
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To: Morgana

I miss Reverend Ike. That man knew how to live.


20 posted on 04/12/2024 3:28:51 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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