I wonder how Jesus would feel about a minister of the gospel pleading for money and then buying thousand-dollar suits and million dollar mansions?
There's a film out there which has casts Max Von Sydo {sp?) as an aging, very cranky & unhappy artist whose shacking-up with a woman much younger than he.
While she's out *cheating* on him, he sits alone & watches TV late into the evening.
When she returns, he flies into a raging rant which goes something like this...
"IF Jesus ever DOES return to Earth & sees what's being done in His name He'll start throwing up & never be able to stop!!"
Now, take a guess precisely what this character had been watching all night as he awaited the return of this mate of his?
A local prominent clergyman says about their sets "This is what happens when heterosexuals try to decorate".
The house the televangelists bought in Newport Beach is most likely a decent sized home with a boat dock on Lido or Linda Isle. If you saw it, you would most likely not classify it as a mansion, although the kitchen appliances and decor probably cost more than an average house in the midwest.
US$ 5 million in Malibu (the market I'm most familiar with) will buy you a three or four story architectural beach house on a good beach, or a very nice bluff house with a magnificent ocean view. It might get you something you would describe as a mansion, but only if you go pretty far from the ocean. I saw a mansion on Cliffside Drive that was listed at $11.9 million, and no, it was not the most expensive house in Malibu. A old, small house in need of updating on the same street would run in the $2,500,000 range, although in nearby Birdview I found a $1,795,000 bargain. These prices are similar to, if not a little lower than Newport Beach.
I hope this has given you some perspective. If they're going to use the house to give large parties and the like, it might not be a bad investment for them. It's an expensive house, but far from the most expensive in the area; it would not be noted for its extravagence in the way Aaron Spelling's $46 million Brentwood house was.
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Disclaimer: The house I live in is worth about $250,000.
I would imagine his reaction would be pretty much the same as his reaction to the money changers in the church.
Something about a millstone around your neck and tossed in the sea comes to mind.
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Crouch is no more a minister of the gospel than is Clinton.
Crouch, and 95% of the religious kooks on TBN teach heresy and aberrance. They get away with it because the average dolt who tunes in and sends his money, wouldn't even BEGIN to be able to list the cardinal doctrines of the historic, Scriptural Christian religion. Nor would he know that if one steps OUTSIDE of those salvational doctrines, one is no longer talking about the "Christian" religion.