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... pastor says revealing his salary would violate Christ's teachings
Posted by Marcello (Guest) - Wednesday, November 11 2015, 20:36:02 (UTC)
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-- Here's a new one: "prosperity gospel", basically it's the rap version of Christianity whose architects is... a white man, again.... and like rap, this "prosperity gospel" is about pimping the gospels like a gang of whores, and paying no taxes on the loot, out of which his "bitches" only get enough to be in his grip, and to have just a few crumbs to feel like they're on the right path. Man, I'm so tired of these Christo-Capitalists... I can't stand reading black Christians who like house slaves, back up "Massa' cau' he be good to me, treat me just fine... I don' know why peoples be so hard on Massa Charley?" These black house of the lord slaves lick the asses of Zionists (even when the Zionist white settlers beat and terrorize black African refugees). The same is true of Asian Christians, like the black house boys, will tear themselves apart arguing how great it is to have an inspiration like Massa Charley. And the cousins of the black American house negro is the African house servant, whom I read on comment threads regurgitating Zio Hasbara about the god's "chosen" having the right to do what they wish... then there are the Harem Negroes, black Muslims who prostrate and kiss the feet of the Wahhabi Saudi drug addicts and bordello regulars.... who when the chaos at the Hajj ended the lives of hundreds of pilgrims, many of them Iranians and black Africans, they took the blame when the Saudi Nazis flooded the news with propaganda about how it was the fault of black African pilgrims... and the stupid fucks not only accepted this line of bullshit, but expanded on it by saying that "we" (black Africans) "are unruly" and as a result, "caused the deaths during the Hajj because we're selfish". So sad to hear Black people get taken advantage of and meekly accept being responsible for the deaths, when in reality it was that piece of shit Saudi prince (Salman's son) who's entourage caused the massive panic which led to so many unnecessary deaths. Wake up, Niggas!


Megamansion-building megachurch pastor says revealing his salary would violate Christ’s teachings
Travis Gettys TRAVIS GETTYS
11 NOV 2015 AT 13:32 ET
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/megamansion-building-megachurch-pastor-says-revealing-his-salary-would-violate-christs-teachings/


Megachurch Pastor Steven Furtick ["Fart-dick"] is used to questions about his gigantic mansion and other trappings of his apparent wealth — but he doesn’t usually face them directly from reporters.

The pastor of North Carolina’s Elevation Church sat down for a rare interview that aired Tuesday on WCCB-TV, where he discussed various controversies related to his promotion of the “prosperity gospel.”

The 35-year-old Furtick has faced intense local scrutiny after building a 16,000-square-foot home on 19 acres valued at $1.6 million — which church officials said the pastor bought for $325,000.

He previously defended the home, which he said was “not that great of a house,” as a “gift from God” — and he cited Christ’s teachings in resisting media calls for more information about church finances.

“I know that we have to have integrity and we have to be generous, and I know the extent of which that is true for me and Holly,” Furtick said, referring to his wife of 13 years. “So to go on record and say here’s how much money we’ve given and here’s what we do with our finances, to me, that would be the most arrogant thing I could do and it would rob me of the blessings of what Jesus said, which is that when you give, you don’t get up and tell everyone how much you’ve given.”

He said some church employees have shared information about the congregation’s finances, but he said he would not violate biblical teachings to do so.

“So when you give one part of a picture, whether that’s how much one of the staff members, what they make, that’s between them and God,” Furtick said. “That’s not mine to release, and the same with my family. I wouldn’t do that to my wife and my kids. I wouldn’t do that to one of our staff members.”

The pastor said during a sermon that the church provides congregants to audited financial statements about the church, but those aren’t made public.

Furtick told WCCB’s Morgan Fogarty that he would never release those records just to satisfy the media.

“I would never make a decision about the church’s finances based on the agenda of a reporter,” he said.

Elevation Church does post some financial records on its website, reporting that the church took in $33.5 million in offerings last year and gave away about $3.8 million in outreach, spent $9 million on personnel and reported $13.9 million in cash assets.

The fast-growing church has built state-of-the-art facilities in the Charlotte area that have cost millions — and Furtick said he doesn’t object to the “megachurch” label.

“I think the size of something has to be kept in the context of the need,” Furtick said. “So when I look at the size of the need in our state and in our country and our world, I don’t feel like we’re a megachurch.”

Elevation Church attracts 20,000 worshipers each week, but Furtick said he had not set a goal of reaching 100,000 followers but would leave that to his children to build.

“Some of the churches that would have the greatest impact wouldn’t be the ones with the largest attendance,” Furtick said. “They might have a mega-impact, but maybe nobody knows their names. Some of the people who are making the greatest difference aren’t really know, aren’t really famous, so I don’t know if we can quantify a church’s impact by the size of it.”



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