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Kouyate42
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I’ve read similar articles where some megachurches were taking in over $1m a month in donations and offerings takings, as well as from fundraisers.
And then people have the nerve to attack the Catholic Church over its wealth?! Maybe they need to look for planks in their own eye before attacking others for the specks in theirs…
And then people have the nerve to attack the Catholic Church over its wealth?! Maybe they need to look for planks in their own eye before attacking others for the specks in theirs…
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Luvtosew
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No wonder Joel and his wife are smiling all the time.
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Kouyate42
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I noticed that one myself…it’s simply disgraceful.
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onemangang
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Joyce Myers is LOADED
Joyce Meyer says God has made her rich.
Everything she has came from Him: the*** $10 million corporate jet, her husband’s $107,000 silver-gray Mercedes sedan, her $2 million home and houses worth another $2 million for her four children*** – all blessings, she says, straight from the hand of God.
It’s been an amazing run, nothing short of a miracle, says Meyer, a one-time bookkeeper who heads one of the world’s largest television ministries.*** Her Life in the Word organization expects to take in $95 million this year. ***
gospelassemblyfree.com/facts/falseprophets.htm
Joyce Meyer says God has made her rich.
Everything she has came from Him: the*** $10 million corporate jet, her husband’s $107,000 silver-gray Mercedes sedan, her $2 million home and houses worth another $2 million for her four children*** – all blessings, she says, straight from the hand of God.
It’s been an amazing run, nothing short of a miracle, says Meyer, a one-time bookkeeper who heads one of the world’s largest television ministries.*** Her Life in the Word organization expects to take in $95 million this year. ***
gospelassemblyfree.com/facts/falseprophets.htm
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Hello_All
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thse pastors are using the bible as their business tool.they interpret the holy scpriptures,according to their financial needs!
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A_Catholic
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You need to understand that Protestants believe in the health and wealth gospel, that the more you obey and please God, the more he will bless you with material blessings. In fact, they see financial difficulties and bad health,or suffering of any kind, as a sign that God is very displeased with you. Only the Catholic church understands suffering and the great meaning behind it, that our Lord was a suffering Saviour, and his church is a suffering church.
One priest explained to me that the reason the Protestants don’t have the corpus on the cross is because they don’t want to look at the suffering. But as Catholics, we understand that there is no salvation without that suffering on the Cross.
Protestants can never really understand someone like Mother Teresa who actually chose poverty, as so many of the great saints have. They can’t understand priests choosing to deny themselves by taking a vow of chastity. They don’t understand why mortification is important. They can’t understand such phenomena as the stigmata. Why would God allow his people to suffer so “needlessly?”
We need to thank God for the great understanding that He has given his Church.
One priest explained to me that the reason the Protestants don’t have the corpus on the cross is because they don’t want to look at the suffering. But as Catholics, we understand that there is no salvation without that suffering on the Cross.
Protestants can never really understand someone like Mother Teresa who actually chose poverty, as so many of the great saints have. They can’t understand priests choosing to deny themselves by taking a vow of chastity. They don’t understand why mortification is important. They can’t understand such phenomena as the stigmata. Why would God allow his people to suffer so “needlessly?”
We need to thank God for the great understanding that He has given his Church.
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GaryTaylor
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Whats sad is many could be doing much more than they are to bring world peace instead of division through monetary gain.
Bad has a very long list, scary actually. For very good you’d be hard pressed to find someone teaching Bible better than Dr Scott Hahn right now on television though.
Bad has a very long list, scary actually. For very good you’d be hard pressed to find someone teaching Bible better than Dr Scott Hahn right now on television though.
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followingtheway
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I’m Catholic, and please refute me one this, but Protestants argue that the Vatican is “loaded” What makes us different?
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BOSS10L
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I’d believe in God too if someone gave me a million dollars in his name.
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Allegra
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Not that I agree with everything she says or stands for, but I live close to Joyce Meyer and I worked for a company that did work on that complex of houses her Ministry owns. From what I understand, her wealth is not taken from the gifts her ministry recieves but the the millions of dollars in book and video sales, fees from conferences, and other royalties that can ligitimatly be called her own rightfully-earned income. However, she certainly isn’t anyone’s poster child of giving to the poor!
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Sailor_Kenshin
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Why do you care?
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Kouyate42
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On paper, the Vatican is one of the richest places on earth and the Catholic church loaded. But much of that wealth is made up of the supposed value lands, art, icons and churches, other buildings including historically significant buildings with protected status and other things. There isn’t actually any significance to those valuations simply for the fact they’re estimates as to the worth and without them being placed for sale, they remain estimates. There’s not much paper cash actually in the Church.
Plus, it is also crucial to understand that the property of the Church is something which has been built up over centuries. People have quite freely given those riches to the Church for the use by clergy/laity/monastics, as well as donating money and other things such as artworks. In terms of the timescale what the Church owns can only be expected.
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Luvtosew
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People who make lots of money off of God, we have Catholic people who do that too. 
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Equites_Christi
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There’s also the fact that the Vatican is a governing body which is the seat of the entire Church, not some pastor and their spouse.
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theidler
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St. Francis of Assisi, what do you think of all these loaded pastors I wonder?
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Kouyate42
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This is also correct.
In a documentary some time ago I watched, the Catholic Church in English actually operates on less than a 1/3 of the money of the Church of England, but has a lot more parishes and different things to run, including schools funding.
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Chaplain777
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Excellent question. I wonder if there is an excellent answer?
Anyways, it seems to me that if people are giving to these ministries it doesn’t matter what is done with the money. If the intention of their heart is to give back to God, especially if they believe they are helping said ministry spread the Word of God to viewers that see the program/ seminar, etc., then I think this is exactly what giving is all about.
Some may say, “But so much could be done with that money in other ways…”, I seem to remember the Apostles having this same conversation about the expensive oil being used to anoint the head of Jesus, and Jesus rebuking the Apostles.
I dunno, if these pastors are scamming then they will answer to God for their greed and leading astray their followers. And, I might add that if there is a sin in all of this it is the misleading, not their wealth. On the other hand, if the pastors are on the up and up and many people are brought into the fold because of it, then I say may they be blessed. I’m doing a little self reflection to avoid letting jealousy or envy guide my response.
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triumphguy
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I had a boss, who made a 7 figures a year, who told me the reason why I wasn’t a millionaire was because I didn’t believe in Christ enough.
I told him that Jesus and the Apostles were crucified, or martyred in other ways, and didn’t die rich in palaces. He was quite offended.
I told him that Jesus and the Apostles were crucified, or martyred in other ways, and didn’t die rich in palaces. He was quite offended.
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