So should I judge my Pastor or Priest if he is driving a 2005 Mercedes? or if he is driving a 1965 Rambler?
That is up to you. I would wonder just how committed to core Christian values a pastor is who drives a 2005 Mercedes. He doesn't have to drive a heap - but, last I checked, Christ called upon his servants to eschew such trappings.
And I don't care if it is Benny Hinn or a stockbroker - if they don't provide an accounting of what happens to money entrusted to them, you shouldn't give them money. It's that simple.
Benny Hinn is not just driving a Mercedes. Here in Bangalore, hundreds of people who don't have enough money to pay for three meals a day have struggled for months to save up a few hundred rupees (or a few dollars, depending on your location) to donate to Hinn. They have sent it to the addresses mentioned on the God Channel. Hinn of course pockets the money and stays in the most expensive hotel in Bangalore - the Leela Palace - and his three days there - for his room alone - probably cost three years' salary for the average Indian, to say nothing of a really poor one. Not to mention his retinue and security, who will be indulging themselves in a similar fashion.
Well, part of the point is that Benny Hinn - whatever his pretensions - is Christlike in precisely two ways - he draws huge crowds, and some people criticise him. But even in the criticism there's a difference. Christ was criticised for being right about everything.
Adrian