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'I'm not worth your Red Lobster money?': Kansas City pastor BERATES 'cheap' congregation for not honoring him with a new watch that he's wanted for a year as part of sermon on 'taking care of God's shepherd' - then issues groveling apology
Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | August 17, 2022 | Alyssa Guzman

Posted on 08/17/2022 3:39:20 AM PDT by Cecily

A Missouri pastor berated his 'poor' congregation for not honoring him with a new expensive watch he asked for a year ago while reportedly delivering a sermon about 'taking care of God's shepherd.'

Pastor Carlton Funderburke, of Kansas City, was caught calling his congregation 'poor, broke, busted, and disgusted' after they still hadn't bought him an expensive Movado watch - which ranges in price from $395 to $3,295 - since he first asked for it in last year.

'I'm not worth your McDonald's money? I'm not worth your Red Lobster money?' he asked the Church at the Well congregation as he paced around on stage on August 7. 'I ain't worth your St. John Knits - y'all can't afford it no how.

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To: qwerty1234

Does this dude have a job outside of his shakedown “Pastorship”?

Next, he’ll have to demand money to fix his teeth!


121 posted on 08/17/2022 9:30:55 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

Lol…

My first thought as well. GMTA


122 posted on 08/17/2022 9:31:44 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Cecily

I bought an Egard watch after seeing the founder on Tucker. Reasonably priced and well made.


123 posted on 08/17/2022 9:32:38 AM PDT by BozoTexino (RIP GOP)
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To: AbolishCSEU

True


124 posted on 08/17/2022 9:34:42 AM PDT by wardaddy (Lawyers guns and money……I lived it…. Now I'm old…. I have wonderful children)
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To: Not_Who_U_Think

And they can’t use a rotary phone either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OADXNGnJok


125 posted on 08/17/2022 9:39:24 AM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: Tudorfly

The ultimate Narcissist.
To these people, they think the universe revolves around them.


126 posted on 08/17/2022 9:42:20 AM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: qwerty1234

The young punk needs a serious comeuppance, and I DON’T CARE WHAT COLOR HE IS, he is only after material wealth and wants his parishioners to fund his excesses.


127 posted on 08/17/2022 9:46:13 AM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: Not_Who_U_Think

“‘you mean a clock with hands?’
And many can’t read it.”

I splurged on a Meister Singer watch a few months ago. It only has one hand, like old European clock towers. It absolutely blows the minds of the local teens when they try to read it. I like to watch them struggle…it’s delicious.


128 posted on 08/17/2022 9:47:13 AM PDT by USAF1985 (Joe McCarthy is a hero...he was absolutely, 100% correct! (Let’s go Brandon!))
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To: HartleyMBaldwin
My wife bought me one of those for Christmas some years ago, but I have never been able to figure out how to make the analog hands match the digital time inset.

Mine is all digital. No analog hands. Casio Men's G-Shock MTGM900DA-8CR Tough Solar Atomic Stainless Steel Sport Watch

129 posted on 08/17/2022 9:52:50 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Leaning Right
Osteen makes his money from the books he sells not his church.
130 posted on 08/17/2022 9:55:05 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: ealgeone

“Beware false prophets”…


131 posted on 08/17/2022 9:56:12 AM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: Myrddin

I like analog, though.


132 posted on 08/17/2022 10:00:32 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

He could hit up the congregation for money to have a diamond set into each one, so he’ll have a DAZZLING smile!


133 posted on 08/17/2022 10:01:18 AM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: Cecily

He should just go steal it, he has the right genes for that.

What I don’t understand is why people fall for and follow bling and shinola merchants like this dolt. Some kind of sickness or is it a mental disorder?


134 posted on 08/17/2022 10:09:06 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: Myrddin

I don’t have that problem with my Apple Watch. I’m not gloating, it’s just that these things cost so much money, you think they would have the bugs ironed out, but no, “get em on the market and sell em” and worry about the bugs later.
My watch was a gift.


135 posted on 08/17/2022 10:16:11 AM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: Sequoyah101

It would be hilarious if each member of his congregation gave him a $20.00 Red Lobster gift card for Christmas. You want my Red Lobster money, here you go, preacher!


136 posted on 08/17/2022 10:18:13 AM PDT by Cecily ( )
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

You should have drawn a 24hr clock face, too, just to piss em off🙂


137 posted on 08/17/2022 10:18:27 AM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: Cecily

This man/these folks are using “pastor” in a way that is never used in the Bible, as do most denominations.

In the New Testament, Paul describes the organization of a local church in one verse, Phil. 1.1:

“Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the SAINTS in Christ that are at Philippi, with the BISHOPS and DEACONS.”

Saints were ordinary Christians, as they were sanctified or set apart for the service of Christ. Bishops, also translated overseers, were also called elders and shepherds in Ac. 20.17-18.

17 And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to him the ELDERS of the church...28 Take heed unto yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit hath made you BISHOPS, to FEED the church of the Lord which he purchased with his own blood.

In the New Testament, elders, bishops, and shepherds all refer to the same men. Elders comes from the Greek PRESBUTEROS which means an older man. Roman Catholicism translates this word as priest, as the basis of their clerics. Bishops and overseers comes from EPISKOPOS. In Roman Catholicism, a bishop is an overseer of priests in the diocese under him, but he doesn’t hold the same office an elder does. Shepherd comes from POIMEIN, and the verb form is translated “to feed,” or “to tend,” as a shepherd does a flock of sheep. In the New Testament, elders, bishops, and shepherds of a local church are ALWAYS given in the plural. There is no instance of a singular elder, bishop, or shepherd of a church in the Bible. Check this for yourself in Ac. 13.12, 15.2, 15.4, 6, 22, 23, 16.4, 20.17, 21.18, Tit. 1.5, Jas. 5.1.

We can also see elders, bishops, and shepherds being used of the same men in I Pet. 5.1-3:

Actually, the word POIMEIN, translated shepherd, is one time (out of 18 occurrences in the New Testament) in Eph. 4.11-13, translated by the Latin word PASTOR:

11 And he gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, PASTORS and teachers; 12 for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ: 13 till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

Why translate a Greek word in an English translation with a LATIN word? Why not a Hungarian word? Would make just as much sense, wouldn’t it? Can you guess who translated it with a Latin word? Some religious translator in Texas? Or Italy, the seat of the Roman Catholic church? That would be more likely, wouldn’t it? It’s strange that PASTOR is used in nearly every English translation, and if it wasn’t for Eph. 4.8, preachers in denominations wouldn’t be called PASTORS ever!

The qualifications of elders, bishops, and shepherds (again, always plural) are given in I Tim. 3.1ff and Tit. 1.5ff. Read those passages quickly and you’ll find that that they were married men, family men with believing children. Bishops with wives and children ruling the elders? Read it for yourself. A plurality in every church? Read it for yourself. In I Pet. 5.1-2, Peter said he was an elder, therefore he was a married man, which is why he had a mother in law in Mt. 8.14, Mk. 1.30, and Lk. 4.38.

Wonder where the vast majority of denominations got the idea of a single PASTOR leading the congregation came from? Not from the New Testament, but undoubtedly from Roman Catholicism. Another tradition of men making void the doctrine of Jesus Christ, making worship void, as Jesus warned in Mk. 7.13: “Making void the word of God by your tradition.”


138 posted on 08/17/2022 10:18:37 AM PDT by FNU LNU ( )
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To: Cecily

pastor is gone today

or congregation is gone tomorrow


139 posted on 08/17/2022 10:36:52 AM PDT by joshua c (where did my tagline go?)
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To: LibertyWoman
Sorry if you’re offended by the truth.

That's no truth. That's just blatant racism and you diminish this site with that garbage.

How pathetic.

140 posted on 08/17/2022 1:34:17 PM PDT by Fury
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