Posted on 05/12/2011 7:46:54 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
....Listing the numerous trials she went through, White said she experienced a midlife meltdown, compassion fatigue, her friend being falsely accused and sent to prison, a stroke, addiction to the prescription medication she was given following her stroke, and problems in her marriage.
Continuing, she added that her church staff split in the middle with some turning on the Whites and going to the media. She maintained that the articles written based on allegations from former church staff were "mostly, totally unfounded" and "lies." The Whites were accused of being all about money and fame. She also indicated that the staff turned on the church because they couldn’t "supply the staff with the lifestyle that they were used to"....
....The trials continued even after the divorce when White and televangelist Benny Hinn were pictured last summer in The National Enquirer leaving a hotel in Rome holding hands. They were accused of having an affair and being engaged. On Thursday, White flatly denied that she ever had an affair....
....There was also the so-called Grassley investigation. Sen. Charles Grassley launched a Senate probe in 2007 into six influential ministries, including White's, following complaints of opulent spending and possible abuse of nonprofit status. The probe came to a close in January of this year. With little cooperation from most of the ministries, which called the investigation an attack on their religious freedom and privacy rights, Grassley's office was unable to make any conclusion about the spending of the ministries and handed out no penalties. White interpreted that to mean her ministry was cleared.
If the IRS launched their 9-year investigation in 2004, doesn't that mean that it's still ongoing?
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Wow, interesting read. I’d never heard of the Whites or their troubles.
Live by the prosperity gospel, die by the prosperity gospel.
As the Scripture says, true repentance begins in the house of the Lord. This kind of trash needs to stop, else we destroy our witness and make a mockery of our calling.
What about the woman at the well who Jesus talked to, then she went back and told the whole town?
I would say that was the first woman ‘pastor’.
There’s a special place in Hell reserved for these charlatans.
But that being said, it seems she/her church (and Benny Hinn who by the way was described as being very helpful in the investigation) were cleared. So, aside from holding hands with Hinn, what did she do wrong?
(Yes, her church had millions in the bank...they also feed and clothe large numbers of the poor.)
> I would say that was the first woman ‘pastor’.
That’s about the broadest definition of “pastor” I’ve ever seen.
Not sure what you mean.
The article states that the investigation closed in January.
That was the 2007 Senate investigation, not the 2004 IRS one.
Her story would make a great Lifetime movie.
Does anyone who doesn’t hate Benny Hinn and believes that God is a God of miracles have unbiased information on what’s really going on with this once mightily-used man of God who fell once on doctrinal heresy issues and if there’s any truth to this stuff here? Only those who know God’s grace and mercy and are not in league with the Accuser of the Brethren need respond. Thanks.
Perhaps it means that the IRS conducted an audit for business which had been done by the church over a 9-year period.
That would make her an evangelist. Definitely not a pastor by any stretch of the imagination or definition.
That actually makes a great deal of sense.
Can a woman witness to others? Sure, but witnessing is not having authority over others and it’s explicit that women are not to be in a position of authority over other believers. Pastorship is a position of authority and is forbidden to women. This is written and settled in Scripture. Those who claim that title are in rebellion against God and their actions are automatically suspect.
Not so sure she was much of a ‘pastor’, certainly not a great example. Jesus told her to bring her husband. She said she didn’t have one. Jesus said that this was so, she had had five husbands - but the man she slept with now was not her husband. This impressed her and she told her people that he was a prophet.
“those who drink of the water from your well will thirst again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
Isn't this lady just great - mocking her "flock" for placing so many demands of her precious time and all. Thought that was what she wanted - mega-church, mega-following, mega-attention. Did she think it was "all about ME" when she embarked on her mission?
Perhaps this lady, like many so-called leaders in mega-churches, see the demands of "leading" congregations as obstacles to overcome, as they sit back in their chauffer-driven Benz, outside the buildings.
Knowing how so many of the status of many of their "following" actually live, she's just a bit high on her opinion of herself and her needs.
Just left one myself, where the pastor, wife and family have just about bankrupted the church (15 million in debt) with shrinking congregants and shrinking tithes to support their lavish life styles, world class trips, etc. Buildings will be repossessed by S & L and pastor continues to beg for monies to "support God's mission."
Fortunately, for me and my family, we do know the Lord and don't rely on our opinion of Him to the goings and comings of this guy, but I worry about new believers; believers who really joined "the church of Pastor X" not the church of Jesus Christ!
Lastly, the "name it and claim it" crowd are living the lifestyle they simply do not deserve, while preaching in the Lord's name. He does charge His leaders with a higher standard of behavior than the lowliest new believer.
Somewhere I remember the verse, "Many will come to Me on that day and say, Lord, Lord. I will reply, get away from Me, I never knew you."
“I’m not here to look cute ... I came to let the devil know ... I’m stronger than I’ve ever been.”
Can you get any more shallow?
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