I'm sure Joyce gives ...how much to the poor?
I find televangelists distasteful in the extreme.
Jesus wept.
Don't do it.....she's gonna have much to answer for....particularly for all those she has led down the faith-in-faith & health-and-wealth path.
There is no surprise here. Jesse Jackass gets paid Al Sharpton gets paid, Jimmy Swaggart gets paid, they are all in it for the money, Why the surprise?
They seem to have some sort of charisma that ensares people. (Makes me think of Bill Clinton?)
An air-conditioned dog house can't be too far down the road...
The logical outcome of a theology that believes that you can do anything you want, once you are "saved".
She used to be a LCMS Lutheran before she decided to get in on the action as a TV evangelist during the heyday of Jim and Tammy Faye Baker. These people have no shame as they flaunt their partnership with Mammon.
Mark 10:21 Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
Mark 10:22 And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions.
Mark 10:23 And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
Even more here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1391771/posts
Lot of judging going on here tonight. See what's in your eye before worrying about what is in another's eye.
The Post Dispatch has been exposing her financial dealings for years now and she just keeps fleecing the flock.
The bottom line however is nobody is forcing people to give her money.
The aspect of the whole thing that bothers me is the tax exempt status of her and her 4 adult children. Buying and selling real estate with the churches tax exempt atatus.
If I but and sell a house that's not my primary residence I have to pay taxes on the profit, not so Joyce and her kids.
Would Jesus wear a Rolex on his television show?
It is far past time that ministries and ministers lose their tax exempt status, and the income shield of the phony 'vow of poverty' used to avoid taxation.
allowing it to continue, invites frauds to 'serve god', and drives good people OUT of ministry altogether.
OR end the irs, and tax us all at the retail level.
no black market ministry exemptions.
we all deserve to be income tax exempt.
Come on now... Every faith church has to raise money to keep the faith. Every televangelist is tax exempt.
Those who benefit from the system are doing God's work. Riches under God are not prohibited.
Freedom of Faith, Freedom of speech---there is no answer for the gullible and those who "think" to pay for a one-way ticket to heaven.
Televangelists rake in $millions, and they all have grand life styles. Dimes from the faihful, Rolls Royces for the pastors. It's an old story.
Might as well sell used cars.
A $90 million dollar a year empire and they pay their leaders $1.3 million. Is that out of line? I don't know. Are they spreading the word? Certainly. There is just too much jealously and condemnation here, IMHO. Maybe they are too controlled by material possession, but that is not my call to make. We all have our faults, and I don't have the ability to say what is in their hearts.
That being said, I don't think they should be tax-exempt and I don't care for Meyers. She grates on me.