Posted on 08/19/2022 2:48:50 PM PDT by LouAvul
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Frustrated that his congregation didn't buy him a luxury watch, a pastor in Missouri called them "poor, broke, busted and disgusted" during a recent sermon.
According to The Washington Post and NBC News, a video clip of the Aug. 7 sermon posted on TikTok showed Rev. Carlton Funderburke of the Church at the Well in Kansas City telling his congregation he was upset they weren't "honoring" him with a Movado watch.
“That’s how I know you still poor, broke, busted and disgusted, because of how you been honoring me,” Funderburke said in the video, according to the news outlets. “I’m not worth your McDonald’s money? I’m not worth your Red Lobster money? I ain’t worth your St. John Knit — y’all can’t afford it nohow. I ain’t worth y’all Louis Vuitton? I ain’t worth your Prada? I’m not worth your Gucci?”
He later informed them during the sermon that the watch could be bought at Sam's Club.
"And y'all know I asked for one last year. Here it is all the way in August, and I still ain’t got it," he said in the clip, the news outlets reported. "Y'all ain’t said nothing. Let me kick down the door and talk to my cheap sons and daughters."
According to the news outlets, the video was posted by the digital media company The Kansas City Defender.
On Tuesday, The Church at the Well posted a video of Funderburke apologizing for his "inexcusable" remarks.
"Though there is context behind the content of the clip, no context will suffice to explain the hurt and anguish caused by my words," Funderburke said.
“”And y’all know I asked for one last year. Here it is all the way in August, and I still ain’t got it,” he said in the clip”
LOL
Sounds like he needs a Mickey Mouse watch
Probably just drunk or on a cocaine downer when he gave the sermon.
Was he drunk?
Sounds like he went to the well one too many times.
Had to make sure it was waterproof.
Does he have his own private jet like a few televangelists have?
Maybe he’s just joking? Then again since he apologized perhaps not. Nobody owes him a gift watch. If he’s disappointed he didn’t get one don’t air that out in a sermon. Geeeeessshhh.
Who was it that said “Men never do evil more cheerfully or more completely as when they do it with religious conviction.”
Reminds me of that song by Janis Joplin , O lord won’t you buy me a mercedes benz my friends all have porshes I must make amends
Incredibly self centered and immature.
He sounds like a spoiled 11 y/o.
Anyone who stays in that church with him as one of the Ministers (let alone as Pastor) is asking to be used and abused.
If he still has a congregation, they deserve what they get.
Everyone is a grifter...
Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well?
It was an early Sunday morning and the church was crowded full.
Old Elder Brown was raving, he was angry as a bull.
The congregation sensed it, and they knew just what he meant,
When he said, "my text today is 'you sinners must repent."
Who threw the whiskey in the well?
Who threw the whiskey in the well?
'Cause Deacon Jones knelt down to pray
All he said was, "Hey, hey,"
So, who threw the whiskey in the well?
Now, who threw the whiskey in the well?
Who threw the whiskey in the well?
I'm feeling mighty fine;
I'm high as a Georgia pine,
So, who threw the whiskey in the well?
Ya gotta love some of these religious folks, many of which are nothing more than crooks and con men.
His apology video is solid, apart for the lack of an explanation for the rant. Drunk or high is my guess.
“And y’all know I asked for one last year. Here it is all the way in August, and I still ain’t got it,” he said in the clip, the news outlets reported. “Y’all ain’t said nothing. Let me kick down the door and talk to my cheap sons and daughters.”
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What the church should have done for this pastor is to send him to a speech and dialogue coach so that he can improve his basic way of speaking so as not to sound like an ignorant hillbilly hick fresh off a turnip truck.
Another Al Sharpton in the making, or maybe a Jesse Jackson wannabe? He has to line up a few well-funded corporate types and use extortion tactics ... then he can go for a diamond crusted Rolex ... or, maybe a Bentley like the NYC Harlem pastor.
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