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When Will The
Christian Church Say ENOUGH!!! Judgment
begins in the House of God (the Church) I Peter 4:17.
If the Church allows the present “Gospel of Prosperity” to continue making multi-millionaires out of preachers who prey on widows and the poor and the church demands no accountability, then eventually the Government will be forced to step in and do the job for her. What else can we expect? And how dare we protest when that sad day comes!
While over 16,000 children die every day from starvation… Joyce Meyer’s ministry bought her
a home on Gravois for $795,000 in 1999, Meyer gutted
it and made at least $1.1 million in improvements. While Meyer and her
husband, Dave, ordered the work to their personal specifications, the bills
went to the ministry. In June 2001, the ministry paid $725,000
for the home next door on the west side. Meyer’s son, David, and his
wife, Joy, moved in and began ordering improvements to the 4,087-square-foot
home. They also billed the work to the ministry. The couple lived there free,
and the property taxes, power, sewer, water and landscaping were paid by the
ministry. In February 2002, the ministry paid
$400,000 for a house on the other side of the home where Joyce Meyer lives.
Meyer’s daughter, Sandra McCollom, and her
husband, Steve, had the home torn down and built a Victorian-style,
3,557-square-foot house in its place. The ministry was billed for the house,
which the coupled moved into in 2003. The ministry bought two other homes
located behind Joyce Meyer’s house for her other two children and their
spouses. The ministry paid all of those bills, too. Meyer has said her family
was too busy working for the ministry to keep up with home maintenance. About three weeks ago, the ministry put the
home where Dave and Joy Meyer live up for sale at $1.25 million. The listing
boasts an “awesome” kitchen, breakfast and hearth room addition.
The walls in one of the four bedrooms features a
mural of Busch Stadium and the Arch. The ministry is also selling the home where Sandra and Steve McCollom live for $1.3 million. The listing describes an 11-room home with three sets of glass French doors, cherry wood floors, 10-foot ceilings and countertops made from DuPont’s Corian. (Source St. Louis Post-Dispatch) The Meyer Family
Compound. Photo by Robert Cohen, St
Louis Post Dispatch Joyce Meyer Ministries bought these 5 homes for Meyer
and her family. The Ministry pays all expenses, including landscaping and lawn
care, property taxes and rehab work. Meyer, her husband and each of their
four married children live in the homes, free of charge.
1.)
Residence of: Joyce and Dave
Meyer 2.)
Residence of: Daughter, Sandra McCollom and her husband Steve 3.)
Residence of: Son, David Meyer
and his wife Joy Meyer. 4.)
Residence of: Daughter, Laura Holtzmann and her husband Doug Residence of: Son, Dan Meyer and
his wife Charity Benny Hinn
– Healer or Huckster? William
Lobdell, a Times staff, wrote about
target-rich environment: the unregulated industry of televangelism is
estimated to generate at least $1 billion through its roughly 2,000
electronic preachers, including 80 nationally syndicated television pastors.
He told of the founder of the Dallas-based Trinity Foundation, Ole E Anthony, whose operatives struck dumpster pay dirt
five years ago in south Florida when they found a travel itinerary for Benny Hinn, the Trinity Broadcasting Network's superstar faith
healer who has filled sports arenas with ailing believers seeking miracles
cures. Hinn's itinerary included first-class
tickets on the Concorde from New York to London ($8,850 each) and
reservations for presidential suites at pricey European hotels ($2,200 a night).
A news story, including footage of Hinn and his
associates boarding the jet, ran on CNN's "Impact." In addition,
property records and videos supplied by Trinity investigators led to CNN and
Dallas Morning News coverage of another Hinn
controversy: fund-raising for a $30-million healing center in Dallas that has
yet to be built. Hinn and other
pastors ask viewers to send in donations for both specific projects and for
general expansion of the television ministry. Donors aren't told of the
opulent lifestyles led by some of the televangelists, but that fact isn't too
much of a secret either--perhaps because it fits nicely with the message of
the Prosperity Gospel they are spreading. A quick computer search of homes
owned by Trinity Broadcasting Network, for example, reveals 17 residences in
Orange County alone, including two hilltop mansions in a gated Newport Beach
community. There's a darker side to Hinn and his organization. In 1998 two members of his inner circle died of heroin overdoses. In 1999, after one of his many vows of reform, he fired several board members and hired an ex-cop named Mario C. Licciardello to do an internal investigation of his ministry. Licciardello was the brother-in-law of Carman, the popular Christian singer, so many think Hinn considered him "safe." But Licciardello did such a good job – taking hundreds of depositions and getting to the bottom of the heroin use – that Hinn then sued him. While Licciardello was still his head of security, the ministry filed a lawsuit demanding that all his files be turned over and sealed, because their public release could result in the end of the ministry. One day before Hinn was supposed to give his deposition in this case, Licciardello had a mysterious heart attack and died. The Hinn organization made an out-of-court settlement with Licciardello's widow, which included sealing the court papers. Hinn runs the largest evangelistic organization in the world that is NOT a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Responsibility. That means his finances are private, his salary is secret, and his income is anybody's guess. Royalties from his books alone are estimated at $500,000 per year, but he essentially has carte blanche to take anything out of the till he wants. "He lives the lifestyle of a billionaire," says Ole Anthony, "all on the backs of false promises and selling false hope." As Hinn put it himself, in a moment of rare revelatory candor, "I don't need gold in heaven, I gotta have it now." During 1993, his one year of "reform," he talked about being stung by being portrayed as a millionaire and how he wanted to be "more Christ-like." His solution: "The Lord said sell the Benz and the watch." He got rid of his Rolex and his Mercedes. Notice he didn't give them away. He sold them – and then replaced the Mercedes with a $65,000 BMW. This is what God told him to do. And who better to know what God wants, because Hinn, after all, is only the third person in the history of the universe to have actually seen God and lived to tell about it. God, he says, is 6-2 or 6-3, with long hair of a light brown color, and eyes that can look right through you. (Jan/Feb 2004 issue of The Door Magazine) Ministry Watch in its Donor Alert of May 2005 recommended that Donors Withhold Giving to Benny Hinn Ministries The Issues MinistryWatch.com calls upon donors to prayerfully consider withholding contributions to Benny Hinn Ministries/World Outreach Church (BHM) in response to facts and allegations regarding reports that Hinn: • Lives a lavish lifestyle with funds intended for charitable purposes; • Preaches a self-serving prosperity theology message; • Manipulates individuals at healing crusades” for personal gain; • Makes unsubstantiated claims of healings; • Is nontransparent and lacks independent board oversight. These facts, aired in March on NBC DATELINE — coupled with Ministry Watch.com’s previously stated concerns about Hinn espousing the self-serving “prosperity theology” message — has caused MinistryWatch.com to recommend that donors consider redirecting their gifts to one of the many biblically-based ministries that are not only more transparent in their dealings with the public but also treat donor’s funds as a sacred trust dedicated exclusively for the Lord’s work. The Details DATELINE interviewed a number of critics, including current and former BHM employees, who argued that Hinn, instead of modeling the sacrificial life lived by Jesus, is motivated by his own self-interests, hence turning the Gospel of Christ on its head. Hinn is founder, chairman, president and CEO of BHM. Through his crusades — which collect untold amounts of cash, as well as donations through checks and credit cards— and television program, This is Your Day,” Hinn raises upwards of $100 million annually, according to NBC. Revelations from the program also include: • Hinn’s salary is somewhere between half a million and a million dollars per year. He also gets royalties from the sales of his books; • Personal perks for Hinn, family and his entourage include a $10 million seaside mansion; a private jet with annual operating costs of about $1.5 million; a Mercedes SUV and convertible, each valued at about $80,000; • What the church termed “layovers” between crusades included hotel bills ranging from $900 per night to royal suites that cost almost $3,000 for one night’s stay. Layover locations included Hawaii, Cancun, London, Milan and other exotic locations. • Beverly Hills shopping sprees; • Receipts showing Hinn’s daughter receiving $1,300 in petty cash; her boyfriend getting $2,550 for babysitting; $23,000 in cash dispersed to Hinn and his wife; and, $25,000 in cash for expenses for a crusade — 30 minutes away from Hinn’s home; • Hinn employs two primary methods to manipulate those that watch him — promising healings to those afflicted with chronic or terminal ill nesses, and claiming that donations are “seeds” being planted by the donor that will result in the gift giver enjoying financial blessings; MinistryWatch.com Take Hinn’s refusal to be accountable to anyone — rooted in a conveniently defiant view of accountability (he is to answer only to God since he receives extra-biblical words, hence the Word of Faith moniker) — is the primary precipitant for each of the critiques amplified above. MinistryWatch.com I believes donors are entitled to make an educated and knowledgeable giving decision based on all the facts about a church or ministry. The disclosures noted above raise issues of concern to MinistryWatch.com and the donating public it serves, Concerns include, but are not limited to: DATELINE, through its well-documented investigation, has raised serious questions as to whether the benefit and compensation package for Benny Hinn and many of his family members diverts funds intended for designated, charitable purposes. • The same investigations raise questions about BHM’s board composition and whether the influences Benny Hinn enjoys on the board compromise its independence. • Because book royalties are made possible in part by the work of ministry and employees, and in keeping with the best practices of other published church and ministry leaders, all royalties should be returned to the ministry to be used for the ministry’s designated, charitable purpose. • Hinn is in a position to exercise not just substantial influence over the affairs of the organization, but total control. He is pastor, president, and chairman for life, he appoints the vice president (who is also a board member), Hinn picked the board, and he can suspend any board member. According
to a June article in The Dallas Morning News, shortly after Hinn announced his move to Texas, he said God had told
him to build a "World Healing Center," and Hinn
appealed for money. As much as $30 million was collected, but the center was
never built. In April 2000, he told Trinity Broadcasting Network's Paul
Crouch, "I'm putting all the money we have in the ministry to get out
there and preach. The day (to build the healing center) will come. I'm in no
hurry; neither is God." Also
about April 2000, Hinn's ministry began building a
58,000square-foot office building in Irving. A few months after that, in
August 2000, a holding company that is a subsidiary of Hinn's
ministry began building a "parsonage" -- a $3 million, 7,200-square
foot oceanfront home -- in Dana Point, Calif. The
Associated Press reported recently But while others like Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker and Robert Tilton have fallen from
grace over the past two decades, Hinn plows ahead,
relentlessly seeking souls and money. Like
some colleagues, he embraces his worldwide followers who say he has cured
them, like heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield, who has credited Hinn with correcting his heart problem. For
the most part, he brushes off scrutiny, though not always gracefully. He once
wished aloud for a "Holy Ghost machine gun" to blow off the heads
of his critics, who object to everything from his unverifiable healing claims
to his perfectly coifed hair. While
Swaggart's and Bakker's high-flying ministries were
leveled by sex scandals, and Tilton eventually was brought down by reports of
false promises and a legal battle with his first wife, Hinn
has tripped over no such obstacles. Hinn has not
joined the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, a sort of
Christian Better Business Bureau to which evangelists such as Billy Graham
belong. The council assesses the financial integrity of Christian
organizations that join it. Nor
has Hinn publicly acknowledged his salary, though
he told CNN in 1997 that his yearly income including book royalties was
somewhere between $500,000 and $1 million. A spokesman has said Hinn generates about $60 million a year in donations. Hinn’s revenue is below that of Billy
Graham’s organization of $100 milion. With
an estimated total viewership of ten million, the money that TV preachers rake
in by any reckoning, are immense. In his heyday Jimmy Swaggart
was making close to US$140 million a year. The Bakkers
were close behind with an estimated yearly income of US$130 million. Jerry Falwell netted, by his own reckoning, about US$60 million
a year. The
money, which was meant for their ministry, went to maintain their extravagant
lifestyles. Swaggart bought himself a US$ 1.5
million mansion. In his show of fatherly affection, he bought another
mansion, worth US$700,000 for his son, Donnie with money loaned by his
ministry. The Bakkers
had bought mansions and luxury cars, even the doghouse was air-conditioned. WILLIAM
LOBDELL, Times Staff Writer in an article titled “For Critics of
Extravagant Faith Healer Benny Hinn, the Good Book
Isn't Enough. They Want His Ministry to Be an Open Book.” Los Angeles
Times Magazine, July 27, 2003 wrote: In an attempt to clear up his image, Hinn suggests meeting a Times reporter at the Four
Seasons hotel in Newport Beach. Accompanied by bodyguards, Hinn arrives in his new Mercedes-Benz G500, an SUV that
retails for about $80,000. He is dressed casually in black, from designer
sunglasses to leather jacket to shoes. His trademark hair has been brushed
forward, bangs hanging over his forehead like Caesar. Joining him at a table
in the hotel's restaurant are a public relations consultant and two ministry
associates, while his bodyguards and another public relations man wait in the
lobby. Hinn fiddles with his cell phone, which
sports a Mercedes logo. Because the World Healing Center Church is
recognized as a religious institution, Hinn is not
obligated under federal law to release information publicly about its revenue
or the identities of its board of directors. But at this meeting, he says he
has nothing to hide. "I'll tell you this," Hinn says, a likable guy who is bewildered that he could
generate so much hostility. "I'm an open book. I think it's time for me
to just say, 'Let me give you the blunt truth.' " That's easier said than done. First, Hinn declines to divulge his salary. (He told CNN in 1997
that he earns between $500,000 and $1 million annually, including book
royalties.) "Look, any amount I make, somebody's going to be mad,"
he says. He offers to make available his ministry's
general financial picture, along with access to his accountant—both
unprecedented. "When it comes to the income of the ministry, I have no
problem talking about it or what happens to the money," Hinn says. "We believe our partners are entitled to
know what happens to their money." But two weeks later, he backtracks,
saying his board won't allow it. The pastor also promises to expand the ministry's three-member board—the guardians of the
nonprofit—and to reveal their names. If they don't like the exposure, Hinn says, they can resign. Several months later, a Hinn spokesman says the board was expanded to five
members, but the names will remain secret "for the board members'
security." But just before this story went to press, Hinn and his board changed their minds and had their
public relations consultant provide the names. The board veterans are Hinn; Bill Swad, described as
an Ohio businessman who authors books such as "Don't Let Satan Steal
Your Harvest"; and Steve Brock, a pastor and featured soloist for the
Miracle Crusades. New members, according to the ministry, are Bob Inello, a businessman from Boston, and Doug Wead, former special assistant to President George H.W.
Bush and author of "All the President's
Children." (DOUG WEAD IS CONNECTED TO KARL STRADER'S WIFE WHO IS A
WEAD!) Hinn
does reveal that the $89 million taken in by his church in 2002 is a record
for his Grapevine, Texas-based ministry, which has experienced double-digit
growth during the past three years through direct-mail requests, viewer
donations and offerings taken at the Miracle Crusades. By comparison, the
Billy Graham Evangelistic Assn. had revenues of $96.6 million in 2001, the
last year available. The hands of faith healer Benny Hinn—tools of a televangelist recognized around the
world—are slim, almost feminine. The fingers are delicate, nails
manicured and polished. A gold wedding band, so wide it covers the bottom of
his left ring finger from knuckle to knuckle like a piece of copper pipe,
bears the insignia of his church. The dove, symbolizing the Holy Spirit,
sparkles with a cluster of diamonds. These small, soft hands could be one of two
things: anointed by God to heal the sick, or props in a televangelist
money-making scheme that preys on the vulnerable. Shades of gray aren't a
part of the Benny Hinn story. Financially, at least, he's the world's
most successful faith healer, having received $89 million in donations last
year, according to officials with his ministry, World Healing Center Church.
His followers pack stadiums here and abroad for his free events called
"Miracle Crusades." He conducts about 24 of these each year,
traveling in a leased Gulfstream jet. Attendance averages 50,000 to 60,000
people over two days, with a crusade in Kenya two years ago drawing 1.2
million worshippers, organizers say. From his broadcast center in Orange County,
Hinn's "This Is Your Day" show is one of
the most-watched Christian TV programs in the world, with viewers in 190
countries. In the U.S., it runs on purchased air time more than 200 times
each week on 80 stations, ministry officials say. The shows are translated
into Spanish, Romanian, Norwegian, Italian, Hindi and Tamil. Hinn's
disclosure in an interview that his ministry generated $160 million in
revenue the past two years is a gold nugget of data that Christian watchdogs
have been trying to get at for years. The Trinity Foundation, a nonprofit
Christian watchdog group in Dallas, has sent undercover spies to infiltrate Hinn's ministry, as well as to dig through trash cans to
gain access to financial records at the pastor's headquarters and television
studios. "He promised me 10 years ago that his
personal and ministry finances would be an open book," says Ole Anthony,
president of the Trinity Foundation, dismissing Hinn's
latest vow for more candor. "Hinn's incredible
wealth and lifestyle does more harm to Christianity than all of his
preaching." The
Tampa Tribune in an article by Michelle Bearden titled Expensive
Walls recently reported: TAMPA
- When preachers Randy and Paula White bought the $2.1 million red-brick
house on Bayshore Boulevard last month, they were
already thinking ahead to November. ``We always do a `Table in the
Wilderness' Thanksgiving dinner for the homeless,'' says Randy White, senior
pastor at Without Walls International Church. ``Now that we have the space to
do it in our own yard, we'd like to find a way to bus them here for the
party.'' The
Whites, who came to Tampa 13 years ago, say they sometimes worried they
wouldn't have rent money after they started their church in 1991. Last
year, they claimed a combined income of $600,000. Of that, $179,000 is Randy
White's annual salary from Without Walls, a church that claims 15,000 members
and brings in $10 million yearly in revenues. Co-pastor Paula White, who is
gaining international acclaim as a televangelist and speaker, is paid
$120,000. They also receive an $80,000 housing allowance from the church. The
Whites did not reveal whether they had borrowed funds from their ministry to
purchase their home as many TV evangelists have done including Oral Roberts
and Jimmy Swaggart. Roberts' two California homes, partly for security reasons, have not
been discussed much by the ministry. His house in Palm Springs,
purchased for $285,000 and financed by a Tulsa bank, was his only privately
owned home. In 1982 ORU endowment funds were used to purchase a $2,400,000
house in a high-security development in Beverly Hills. Considered a
potentially profitable investment, the house served as Oral's West Coast
office and residence. Wall
Watchers tax expert Rod Pitzer says federal law
requires that any compensation — salary and perks, including housing
for ministers — must be reasonable. "Reasonable" means that
the benefits to Evangelist Joyce Meyer and her family roughly equal what
other ministers in the St. Louis area get from their congregations, Pitzer said. For example, Pitzer
said, Meyer's use of church money for five homes in South County — for
Meyer and her husband, and for each of their four children — seems
"abusive." But Meyer
says there's nothing wrong with the ministry paying about $4 million to
purchase, renovate and maintain the five homes. As she sees it, the
ministry-owned homes are simply parsonages for her church. "Ministers
either have a parsonage that their ministry pays for — like the Pope
lives in the Vatican, which is very nice — or they can take a housing
allowance and own their own house," Meyer said. Jeffrey
K. Hadden and Charles E. Swann in their book Prime
Time Preachers stated: Billy Graham was embarrassed in 1977 when the
Charlotte Observer discovered an undisclosed $23-million fund in Texas,
apparently not mentioned in the accountings of the Minneapolis headquarters
of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. As a result Graham's business
manager led the formation of the Evangelical Council for Financial
Accountability after Graham said on a national telecast, ". . . there
are some charlatans coming along and the public ought to be informed about
them and warned against them." Christian
News Today reported that Franklin Graham wears jeans, boots, denim
shirt, and leather jacket. He was a teen rebel who drank, smoked, fought, and
led police on high-speed chases. He was kicked out of LeTourneau
College. He used to be a rebel and a 'bum' got religion and become more
sophisticated and formed "the Samaritan's Purse' so that he can fly
around the country and charge things to his non-profit corporation. As a result
his ministry, Samaritan's Purse, had a run-in with the Evangelical Council
for Financial Accountability. The ECFA suspended Samaritan's Purse while it
looked into Franklin's (Graham) compensation and use of the company plane. Billy
Graham has been accused of the following unethical deeds ·
taking 100 % salary at 83 years of age and working less than 25 percent ·
being a friend of Nixon and a bigot against the Jews ·
writing a letter to Nixon to bomb the dykes of North Vietnam ·
stating that he is unsure that heaven is a right place for him ·
unconditional support of Clinton and his forgiveness of Clinton · using a Ghost writer to write his
books ·
forming ECFA to protect his interests and cook the books ·
supporting a son, Ned, who was a drunk, adulterer, immoral and had no
integrity ·
giving his ministry to Franklin who is as deceitful as his father and a bum
and a thief Although
Billy Graham encourages religious leaders to be open about their salaries and
publish their finances none of the Grahams reveal their total compensation
nor release their personal income tax as
President Bush does and former President Clinton has done. It's the law
of the land that all non-profit chairmen of corporations must reveal their
total salary and that Billy, Ned and Franklin do not speak volumes of their
hypocrisy. The
Associated Baptist Press - www.abpnews.com on April 3, 2001 also reported
that "About half of Baptist organizations contacted by the independent
newspaper Baptists Today would not disclose salary information for their top
executive. Three Southern Baptist Convention entities said policies allowed
them to release only salary ranges. Presidents
Albert Mohler of Southern Seminary in Louisville,
Ky., and Kenneth Hemphill of Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas,
declined to provide any information on compensation. New Orleans Seminary did
not return numerous phone calls regarding the salary of President Charles
Kelley. However, the IRS requires all colleges and universities to report the
salaries of the top five paid staff members, Brumley
explained." The
fact remains that multi-million dollars Family run Evangelistic Ministries in
America be it the Hinn's of Orlando, the Straders of Lakeland, the Howard-Browne's of Tampa, the Falwells of Lynchburg, the Brights
of Orlando, the Robertson's of Norkfolk, the
Roberts of Tulsa, the Copelands of Forth Worth, and
the Graham's of Minneapolis are notorious for hiding their total salaries and
those of their family members and special friends in their indirect
personally owned non- profit religious corporation while they live in
palatial palaces like kings and royalty. Unlike
Jesus Christ who owned nothing, Televangelists Jan and Paul Crouch who lost
their tax exemption for their Trinity Broadcasting Network are definitely not
lacking in any material possession. Their home is described as "a
palatial estate with ocean and city views and was purchased for around five million
dollars. It has six bedrooms, nine bathrooms,
a billiard room, a climate-controlled wine cellar, a sweeping staircase and a
crystal chandelier. The three-story, nearly
9,500-square-foot house, has an elevator, also has a six-car garage, a tennis
court and a pool with a fountain. Trinity
Broadcasting, established in 1973, has more than 768 TV stations on the air
worldwide. The Crouches oversee a $100-million-plus-a-year enterprise. One of
the Crouch estates is TBN's ranch in Colleyville,
TX, just minutes away from the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
The 80-plus acre ranch contains eight houses and horse stables, is estimated
to be worth about $10 million. Mind
you President Clinton did release his total salary and his personal income
tax to the public while Evangelist Billy and Franklin Graham, Jimmy Swaggart, and Benny Hinn do
not. But adulterous and lying Bill Clinton
seems to have more integrity and accountability than Southern Baptist
Evangelists do in this area? On
March 21, 1997 on TBN live, Benny Hinn said,
"THE DEVIL CANNOT TOUCH YOU IF YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN." This is a
demon lie. Millions of people viewed that program throughout the world, and
they were told a lie. Benny believes it. The devil does not believe it. We
certainly do not believe it. No wonder so many "Christians" are
DESTROYED FOR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE. On
March 16, 1997, CNN "IMPACT" had a profile of Benny Hinn and his ministry. What was revealed were FACTS, and
was very negative. Some of the things THEY DISCLOSED were. His
ministry operates in a "veil of secrecy" as it will not disclose
the financial status. Benny
Hinn's salary was $500,000.00 a year, not counting
benefits, which are many. Ask yourself what YOU would do with that much money
a year. He
lives in a $650,000 home in a guarded development. CNN
reported on one of Hinn's trips HIS hotel room was
$2,200.00 a night. One
of Hinn's former body guards was going to go public
about Hinn's ministry and the money flow. The guard
was paid $103,000.00 to keep quiet. He did. Hinn's ministry
receives 15,000 to 18,000 pieces of mail a WEEK. Think there may be money in
some of those envelopes? They have "forty people working 40 shifts"
to handle all the mail. Hinn's ministry
intake increased 50% since 1995. Hinn talks and
acts like deceased Kathryn Kuhlman. "The only difference between the two
is she wore a white dress, and he wears a white suite". When
asked why he had to drive such an expensive car, Hinn
said, "what do you want me to drive, a Honda?" On
the CNN Impact Sunday Show of March 16, 1997 when
questioned by CNN. Evangelist Benny Hinn had failed
to provide for six months to CNN the promised financial statements of his
ministry. Benny
Hinn admitted that he made more money than the
President of United States around $ 500,000 to $ 1,000,000. Personal profit
which came to him as a result of love offerings, tithes and financial support
given by the public and for which he and his friends refuse to give financial
accountability while they hold others accountable for their spiritual
state. Now
If Benny Hinn wants to make a million dollars a
year honestly, let him resign from the ministry and go to the private sector
and do it. He and others are not entitled to make money from inside trading
and complicity from their positions in the ministries. If
Benny wants to become a book writer and make money from his books let him
leave the ministry and become a private individual. There is no justification
under heaven and before God in becoming rich off the gifts and love offerings
of God's people. Thanks to: www.christiannews.0catch.com
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