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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Mark
I think they should pay him an appropriate salary and benefits, which they probably already do. He can buy whatever personal items he wants with that money. If certain members of the congregation want to give him gifts, that is their choice. The never-ending shakedown of everybody for personal gifts is unseemly.
This doesn’t help Kansas pastoral optics, I already know one whose given that state a bad taste , I guess I’m not surprised though
Don’t leave Joel Osteen off of that list.
I never wear a watch. Nothing important happens until I get there.
some truth to what you say however, white trash aren’t the ones behind the skyrocketing crime rates.
I know churches which do not pay any staff. It’s all volunteer and done to help the Body.
Throw him out.
You could ask the same of people like Joel Osteen, Kenneth Copeland, Pat Roberson, Paula White, and God knows how many others. The only difference is he's looking for a watch while Copeland goes for private air planes.
I don’t like analog. ☹️
I like a stopwatch and timer on my watch.
If I recall Joel Osteen was a Word of Faith sort of preacher ... if you tithe and “claim” your blessings you’ll be financially blessed in this life.
So ... in some congregations people can’t afford a full load of groceries or full tank of gas, or to buy school supplies ... but still gotta bless the pastor.
That doesn’t sound like what Jesus would do.
This is why the Apostle Paul wrote in 1 Tim 3:2–5:
“3 Therefore an overseer (we call them elders now...) must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. 4 He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, 5 for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God’s church?”
The last line is a rhetorical question...
“ How stupid are these people?”
Well, they’re democrats, so….
In my book Osteen is just another phony “prosperity preacher”. Osteen, however, is smoother than most. He surrounds his central pitch with jokes, smiles, and pleasantries.
Some folks will disagree with that, I’m sure. To each his own.
I wonder what percentage of the tithes and offerings brought into the storehouse of Osteen’s church are given out to the truly needy of the congregation (not con artists and deadbeats, but people on low or fixed incomes who could use some help with the necessities). That is part of what the tithing/storehouse principle is supposed to cover.
Yeah that’s what I thought
A good watch company. NOT woke. See their films on man and woman. $140 on up.
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