Posted on 04/24/2015 7:58:37 AM PDT by sevinufnine
A controversial US pastor has defended trying to buy a $65million private jet with worshippers' donations and responded to critics by claiming 'the devil is trying to discredit' him.
Reverend Creflo Dollar, 53, launched an appeal last month for 200,000 people to each donate '$300 or more' so that he could purchase a Gulfstream G650 to replace his current damaged aircraft.
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Dollar’s wife Taffi has been known to introduce her husband at his sermons. During her address, she claims Dollar comes ‘face to face with God, like Moses’.
She also includes an admonition saying that ‘every tongue that rises up against’ (Dollar) ‘will be struck down’, Financial Juneteenth reported.
Ay-Mahn brudder from another udder!!
lol
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Think he’ll have any trouble raising the money from his
followers?
Dear Sequoya,
You said: We all have to find our own way don’t we?
Yes we do. My father was a pastor...not a fake one either. He left the ministry after 15 years for exactly the reasons you mentioned. The “organized church” had become a machine and he saw nothing he could do would change it.
He also stopped going to church and simply read his Bible Sunday mornings (most days actually). He’d say “hey...we are already living in our church because our bodies house the Holy Spirit.” I liked that and still do. :)
Apparently he didn’t raise nearly enough. And the devil is at fault.
It was the devil... the devil... that kept you from opening your wallet and sending Mah-Man Revrun Mo Money that $300 gift, which is yo fahr share of this burden that the Revrun will take for you!
5.56mm
How does he discredit himself?
“Flounder, flounder in the sea,
Come, I pray thee, here to me;
For my wife, good Ilsabil,
Wills not as I’d have her will.”
It will start a controversy here and I don’t want to do that. What we do with our souls is a personal thing. The instructions are all in THE BOOK. Pointing someone to that is the obligation I have if they do not know about it. What we do with that is up to us.
There are lots of pastors who aren’t fake and work their hearts out doing what they believe is right. I have a great friend who is a pastor. I see him struggle and sacrifice for his church. I admire him but can’t join him. I will not throw pearls before swine and that is what so much of what he does seems like. Most of the flock is not worth my time.
“I don’t care how much it costs. How much I gotta pay every Friday?”
I’m waiting for him to play the race card.
Shades of Jim Bakker.
Looks like it landed heavy on the nose gear and buckled the fuselage.
Can’t it be repaired?
What fool follows this shyster?
Precisely.
I can’t make fun of the man -— just feel an intense sadness of what things appear to be.
I am not qualified to judge him. My own Salvation and growth in God is what concerns me.
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