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| Creflo Dollar |
Creflo Dollar, the high-living prosperity preacher who wants to show you God's path to success and vast wealth, needs your help. In what way? He'd like you to send him $200 so he can buy himself a $65 million Gulfstream G650 jet. He figures that if 200,000 folks send in the coin, he'll realize his dream of flying around the world in luxury.
Oh sure. Go ahead and laugh. To the average Joe Shmoe, a $65 million private luxury jet is beyond excessive--it's morally obscene. But don't tell that to the Dollar Man who defends his request for a golden air chariot by claiming that God doesn't want his servants flying coach.
Or--perish the thought--traveling by bus or train. And so, it's time to fly the friendly skies in opulent luxury. For now, Dollar has to make do with his 1984 G-1159A Gulfstream that's akin in the prosperity preacher's eyes to driving a 1973 Ford Maverick with 200,000 miles on the odometer.
When Dollar was asked why he needs such an expensive plane, he got a bit defensive: "Let me tell you something about believing God. I can dream as long as I want to. I can believe God as long as I want to. If I want to believe God for a $65 million plane, you cannot stop me. You cannot stop me from dreaming."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/23/creflo-dollar-jet
Dollar is one of a myriad of prosperity preachers who've gotten extremely wealthy from the financial support of their faithful and gullible followers. While it's not against the law to operate a ministry and ask people for money, it's morally wrong to convince people that you know God's formula for financial success and you can teach it to them.
However, the prosperity gurus don't know any celestial financial secrets. Rather, they do know how to con people, and some of them such as Dollar have done a very good job of that. Case in point is Gloria Copeland's bold claim that those who send her $10 will be rewarded by God with $100, while those who send in $100 will reap $1,000 and so on.
Let Gloria's husband Ken, the founder of Kenneth Copeland Ministries explain it as only he can: "Well, now, you need balance in this, get out there in that hyper-faith. That name-it-and-claim-it- that blab-it-and-grab-it. Yeah! We named it and claimed it and got it. We blabbed it and grabbed it and still got it! Hallelujah! And our bills are paid."
http://www.forgottenword.org/prosperity.html
Stop and think about this: If all you need is faith to become wealthy as Copeland, Dollar et al. claim, then why do they ask you to send them money? The reason why they continually ask for money is because their faith formulas don't work and never have. They're designed to con gullible and biblically illiterate people into believing that shortcuts to financial success exist via prayers of faith.
But when you try that method, it doesn't work. However, it does work for the prosperity preachers such as the Copelands, Dollar etc. who get rich off of the big coin sent in by their empty-headed followers. When legendary bank-robber Willie Sutton said he robbed banks because "that's where the money is" he never realized that bank robbery was peanuts compared to where the real money is in the prosperity gospel.
What does the Bible say about the love of money? Let the apostle Paul explain it: "If anyone teaches otherwise and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, they are conceited and understand nothing. They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions and constant friction between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain. But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs." (1 Timothy 6:3-10)
Apparently, Dollar's still hasn't gotten all money he needs to buy his jet. Maybe he'll get it and maybe he won't. But if you're thinking of sending him $200 to help him fly the friendly skies in luxury, keep the money and do something better with it such as buying a needy person a good meal, clothes or helping them pay the rent.
If Dollar really believes in what he preaches, then he can ask God to direct deposit the check into his bank account. Or, better yet, send him a lifetime Greyhound bus pass.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/23/creflo-dollar-jet
Dollar is one of a myriad of prosperity preachers who've gotten extremely wealthy from the financial support of their faithful and gullible followers. While it's not against the law to operate a ministry and ask people for money, it's morally wrong to convince people that you know God's formula for financial success and you can teach it to them.
However, the prosperity gurus don't know any celestial financial secrets. Rather, they do know how to con people, and some of them such as Dollar have done a very good job of that. Case in point is Gloria Copeland's bold claim that those who send her $10 will be rewarded by God with $100, while those who send in $100 will reap $1,000 and so on.
Let Gloria's husband Ken, the founder of Kenneth Copeland Ministries explain it as only he can: "Well, now, you need balance in this, get out there in that hyper-faith. That name-it-and-claim-it- that blab-it-and-grab-it. Yeah! We named it and claimed it and got it. We blabbed it and grabbed it and still got it! Hallelujah! And our bills are paid."
http://www.forgottenword.org/prosperity.html
Stop and think about this: If all you need is faith to become wealthy as Copeland, Dollar et al. claim, then why do they ask you to send them money? The reason why they continually ask for money is because their faith formulas don't work and never have. They're designed to con gullible and biblically illiterate people into believing that shortcuts to financial success exist via prayers of faith.
But when you try that method, it doesn't work. However, it does work for the prosperity preachers such as the Copelands, Dollar etc. who get rich off of the big coin sent in by their empty-headed followers. When legendary bank-robber Willie Sutton said he robbed banks because "that's where the money is" he never realized that bank robbery was peanuts compared to where the real money is in the prosperity gospel.
What does the Bible say about the love of money? Let the apostle Paul explain it: "If anyone teaches otherwise and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, they are conceited and understand nothing. They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions and constant friction between people of corrupt mind, who have been robbed of the truth and who think that godliness is a means to financial gain. But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs." (1 Timothy 6:3-10)
Apparently, Dollar's still hasn't gotten all money he needs to buy his jet. Maybe he'll get it and maybe he won't. But if you're thinking of sending him $200 to help him fly the friendly skies in luxury, keep the money and do something better with it such as buying a needy person a good meal, clothes or helping them pay the rent.
If Dollar really believes in what he preaches, then he can ask God to direct deposit the check into his bank account. Or, better yet, send him a lifetime Greyhound bus pass.
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