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10 Crazy Quotes From Televangelists

Televangelists have a long history of saying embarrassing things on TV. The Bible teaches that the words we say reflect what is in our heart (Luke 6:45).

So let's take a look at ten of the crazy comments televangelists have made.

1. 'YOU ARE GOD’

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Paul Crouch, Kenneth Copeland and Creflo Dollar teach that we are gods. Bible teacher Justin Peters says these religious leaders "demote God and deify man."

"I am a little god. I have His name. I am one with Him. I'm in covenant relationship. I am a little god. Critics be gone!" says Paul Crouch.

Kenneth Copeland: "You are anything that He is."

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Creflo Dollar: "You are gods (little 'g')"

2. THE HOLY GHOST MACHINE GUN

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Some televangelists have been accused of making threats towards their critics and potential whistleblowers.

In this video Benny Hinn admits that he would like to kill his critics with a "Holy Ghost machine gun."

"Sometimes I wish God would give me a Holy Ghost machine gun. I'd blow your head off!"

3. ATTENDING THE FUNERAL OF TBN CRITICS

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Last year Brittany Koper, the granddaughter of Trinity Broadcasting Network founders Paul and Jan Crouch, sued her former attorneys and released damaging information about the TV network's leadership. Following her lawsuit, this video was shown on TBN's program Behind the Scenes. Paul Crouch says that he attended the funerals of two TBN critics.

Paul Crouch says: "God help anyone who would try to get in a way of TBN, which was God’s plan. I have attended the funeral of at least two people who tried."

4. THE HOLY GHOST ENEMA?

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Jesus warned the pharisees not to blasphemy the Holy Spirit. Some televangelist critics might accuse Benny Hinn and his wife Suzanne of such blasphemy.

In this video Suzanne tells churchgoers, "If you're engine is not reving up, you know what you need?

A holy ghost enema right up your rear end because ... God won't tolerate it."

5. FAITH HEALER KICKS PEOPLE TO HEAL THEM

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Almost half a million people flocked to Lakeland, Florida, to hear Canadian-born televangelist Todd Bentley preach in 2008. Bentley's popularity imploded after he left his wife for another woman. In this video Bentley says that God told him to kick a woman in the face in order to heal her.

“And there is this old lady worshiping right in front of the platform. And the Holy Spirit spoke to me, the gift of faith come on me. He said: ‘Kick her in her face,’” he says.

6. I AM A BILLIONAIRE

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Kenneth Copeland preaches the prosperity gospel. Copeland claims there is something wrong if a Christian doesn't become rich.

In this clip Copeland says that he is a billionaire. “I am a billionaire, because the assignment that the Lord gave me, He said: ‘I want you to begin to confess the billion flow.’”

7. MONEY COMETH TO ME NOW

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Some of the prosperity preachers believe in positive confession which is the idea that we can speak things into existence.

In a video preacher Leroy Thompson screams, “God said: `it is time to tell the money you don’t belong to the wicked, you belong to us.` (..) Money come to me now!”

8. DONATE WITH A CREDIT CARD TO ERASE DEBT

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If you have ever worked in a retail sales company, you've probably been taught how to "close a sale." Televangelists use similar techniques to receive donations.

In this video Mike Murdock asks his viewers to donate $1,000. Murdock says that God will erase a donor's credit card debt if he or she will donate with a credit card.

"As you use your faith, God is going to wipeout your credit card debts."

9. DIVORCE YOUR WIFE WITH ALZHEIMER'S

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For years Pat Robertson has offered advice and answered questions from viewers of the 700 Club.
In this video Robertson advises that husband divorce his wife that has alzheimer's.
"I know it sounds cruel, but if he's going to do something, he should divorce her and start all over again ..."

10. NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS

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In 1991 Jimmy Swaggart's second prostitute-related scandal occurred. He was pulled over driving erratically and his passenger was prostitute. The next Sunday Swaggart told his church, "The Lord told me it's flat none of your business," according to the Associated Press.

5 Televangelists and Their Jets

5 Televangelists and Their Jets

By Esther Oliveira

September 10, 2013|9:55 am

1. Paul and Jan Crouch of Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) - A Hawker 800XP and a Bombardier BD-700-1A10

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One of the TBN leaders' jets is like this one, according to The Daily Mail.

2. Kenneth Copeland – Cessna 550 Citation Bravo and Cessna 750 Citation X

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Cessna 550b citation bravo.
 

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Vienna Jet Cessna 750 Citation X at Darwin Airport

These are the same jet models that Kenneth and Gloria Copeland of Fort Worth reportedly have. The pair have pledged the aircrafts are used for the purpose of serving their ministry.

3. Creflo Dollar (private jets) - a Gulfstream Jet and a Gates Learjet

 

 

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Creflo Dollar speaks to thousands of attendees at World Changers Church International, Sunday, June 10, 2012.

 

 

 

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This is one of his jets, according to BornRich.com. The jets are reportedly valued at $5.3 million (Gulfstream) and nearly $1 million (LearJet).

4. Pat Robertson - C-21 Learjet Model 35

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Swiss Air Force Learjet 35A (T-781) at the Royal International Air Tattoo, Fairford, Gloucestershire, England.

Pat Robertson used to rent out his Learjet like this one above as he used it infrequently, according to CBN spokeswoman Angell Vasko. His plane crashed in 2006.

5. Mark Barclay, dubbed as the "Preacher of Righteousness" - Citation III 650

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Mark Barclay and a jet.
 

Recently, the televangelist from Midland Michigan asked his followers in a letter for $79,000 to repaint a luxury jet purchased by his organization. He says the jet "actually belongs" to the Lord.

Creflo Dollar 911 Call & Arrest for Battery: "He Punched Me in the Face"

Creflo Dollar 911 Call: 'He Punched Me in the Face'

Megachurch pastor Creflo Dollar's daughter called 911 on him and the tape has now been released.

http://www.cbsatlanta.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=7390359

http://peachtreecorners.patch.com/articles/creflo-dollar-911-call-he-punched-me-in-the-face-6afdba11

CBS News has released the 911 call from Creflo Dollar's daughter after the alleged battery incident earlier this month.

In the tape, the daughter of the World Changers pastor says that she does not show any signs of injury, but she does state that her father "choked me and punched me in the face."

She admits that the confrontation stemmed from her wanting to go to a party, and her father being unhappy with her grades.

Dollar, whose megachurch has a satellite church in Peachtree Corners, was arrested on battery charges that evening. In his first sermon after the arrest, he said the truth will come to light.

This article first appeared on Cascade Patch.

Creflo Dollar Arrested for Consummated Assault: Battery

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/06/creflo-dollar-atlanta-megachurch-pastor-arrested-for-battery/

Creflo Dollar: Atlanta Megachurch Pastor Arrested for Battery

    

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Megachurch pastor Creflo Dollar is expected to preach on Sunday, in spite of a physical fight with his daughter that led to his arrest, his attorney said.

Fayette County Sheriff’s Deputies arrived at Dollar’s Atlanta home around 1 a.m. Friday after they received a domestic violence call from the pastor’s 15-year-old daughter, authorities said.

The fight over whether the daughter could attend a party turned physical, authorities said.

A witness told deputies Dollar, 50, grabbed his daughter by her throat and choked her, causing a scratch on her neck, ABC News’ Atlanta affiliate WSB reported.

Dollar faces misdemeanor charges of simple battery and cruelty to children. He posted a $5,000 bond and was released Friday morning.

In a statement issued through his attorney to the Associated Press, Dollar said he would never physically harm his children.

“The facts in this case will be handled privately to further protect my children. My family thanks you for your prayers and continued support,” he said.

Dollar and his wife, Taffi, have five children.

The pastor founded his ministry in 1986. It grew from a modest first service in front of eight people to having thousands of followers in satellite churches around the country.

Dollar is known for his flashy lifestyle and for preaching a gospel of prosperity to his congregants.

“Do you know why God wants you to prosper? He has a plan for your prosperity and it involves more than just having a big house and nice cars. God’s design for prosperity is so you can be a blessing to others,” it says on Dollar’s website.

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Update: 1 of 2 Law Suits Against TBN Dropped

          An interesting development with the TBN lawsuits.  One of the two suits has been dropped, not dismissed.   There is a difference, but we doubt Charisma’s journalists have legal backgrounds.  Why this happened is not clear yet; this suit is less clear than the main one filed by Paul Crouch's Grand-daughter, Brittany Koper.

          Colby May, TBN’s attorney, continues the same mantra of defense offered in other news accounts.  Same tune, but in a different key.  We covered this at: 

LA Times: TBN Lawsuit & Financial Fraud

http://reformationanglicanism.blogspot.com/2012/05/la-times-tbn-lawsuit-financial-fraud.html    

NY Times Covers TBN v. (Granddaughter) Koper Case in re "Fraud Allegations"

http://reformationanglicanism.blogspot.com/2012/05/tbn-loons-ny-times-covers-tbn-v-kober.html  

Youtube Roundup on TBN Lawsuit

http://reformationanglicanism.blogspot.com/2012/05/youtube-roundup-on-tbn-lawsuit.html

          Here’s Charisma’s article.   See:  http://www.charismanews.com/us/33409-exclusive-lawsuit-against-tbn-dismissed

EXCLUSIVE: Lawsuit Against TBN Dismissed

12:41PM EDT 5/15/2012 Charisma News Staff

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Christian television giant Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) got some good—although not unexpected—news May 7 when a lawsuit that has been fuel for a flurry of potentially libelous news articles against the network was suddenly dropped by attorneys for the plaintiff.

The suit filed by Joseph McVeigh, the uncle of a former TBN manager who admitted to misappropriating hundreds of thousands of dollars in network funds, alleged that high-level TBN officials had misused millions of dollars from the network to fund a lavish lifestyle of multiple mansions, private jets, luxury automobiles and expensive meals.

TBN attorney and spokesman Colby May explained that the entire suit was nothing more than a ploy to divert attention from the actions of McVeigh, his nephew Michael Koper, and Koper’s wife Brittany, who was TBN’s former finance director as well as the granddaughter of TBN founders Paul and Jan Crouch.

“The truth of the matter is that this lawsuit was never anything more than a smokescreen to obscure the Kopers’ own misappropriation of ministry funds, as well as their illegal loan of over $65,000 to Mr. McVeigh,” said May. “There was never any lavish or reckless spending of ministry money by the Crouches or any other TBN officials: no hundred thousand dollar motor homes for pets, private jets for personal use or any other unaccountable expenditures.”

May explained that McVeigh’s attorneys quickly moved to have the lawsuit dismissed after TBN’s attorneys filed a motion charging that the suit violated California’s SLAPP law prohibiting meritless lawsuits filed to intimidate or silence a defendant. “Courts take a dim view of this kind of legal maneuvering, and McVeigh and his attorneys got caught, plain and simple,” May said.

TBN, he predicted, will ultimately be vindicated in a similar lawsuit filed by Brittany Koper. While TBN is not a defendant in that action, May said that Koper’s attorneys (who also represented McVeigh in his suit) used the suit to try to attack TBN’s reputation and integrity.

“The salacious accusations in the Koper action are similar to those made by McVeigh,” May pointed out, “and for the same reason: to divert attention from the truth that the Kopers used their positions of authority and trust at TBN to divert significant amounts of ministry funds for their own personal use.”

Meanwhile, May said, TBN continues to pursue its unchanged mission of broadcasting inspirational and family programming around the world.

“Unfortunately, these kinds of attacks can impact a ministry in a variety of ways,” May conceded. “But we’re thankful that TBN’s financial and ministry partners have continued to stand with us, knowing that the spiritual and financial integrity that has given us success over the past 40 years will guide us into the future.”

2 Stories: Husband and Wife Get Free of TBN Pentecostalist Prosperity Pimps

A couple gives their account of getting free of the Baptacostalist TBN crowd.  http://apprising.org/2012/03/26/falsified-word-faith-prosperity-gospel/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+apprising%2F2+%28Apprising+Ministries%29

Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 26, 2012 in Current Issues, Features, Word Faith

For there are many rebellious men, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, who must be silenced because they are upsetting whole families, teaching things they should not teach for the sake of sordid gain. (Titus 1:10-11)

They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed.
(Titus 1:16)

Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints. For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. (Jude 3-4)

[Vincent] TV preachers are very slick, and the majority of them are leading masses astray, supposedly using Scripture to back up their claims. Men and women are on national and worldwide television “preaching” that God wants everyone to always be healthy and wealthy therefore resulting in prosperity in all things, all the time. many of them teach that we are actually “little gods” because, after all, we were created in the image of God. Some actually going so far as to say that we are everything God is and was and will ever be.

Most of them claim to be able to physically heal people, cast out demons, make futuristic prophecies [most prophecies of which have never happened). Some claim to have taken trips to Heaven and back, receive direct and extra-Biblical revelations from God, and even supposedly had personal conversations with God. As the verses at the beginning of this chapter say, these "preachers" profess to know God, but deny Him by what they do.

They are deceivers who should not teach but do so for one reason and one reason alone. Money.

[My wife] Lori was duped by two of these false teachers, Joel Osteen and Joyce Meyer. Two of the lesser recognized false teachers, especially amongst evangelical Christians. I went through a time where I was sick, nothing life threatening but was a season of life where illness did plague the body for the good part of a year. I fell into the trap of watching Joel Osteen every Tuesday night and reading his book. I bought into the lie of if I just quoted to myself that “I am a victor and not a victim” that I would start to overcome this illness eventually.

I would continually do self-affirmations that Joel was pumping at me from the television screen, all the while living in total rebellion to my Lord. I had no real understanding of God’s sovereignty and that possibly the reason I was sick was that it was the work of God in my life for a reason. That thought never crossed into my mind. I heard over and over that God doesn’t want us to be sick and miserable. but that He wants us to live a victorious life. Had I been in the word of God I would [have] quickly realized this wasn’t lining up with the life of the apostles at all and those men were hand picked by the Lord.

Their lives got worse as it wen ton, they were persecuted, they were homeless, poor, in prison, and yet they were blessed and cared for. These were the truths I needed to be rooted in, yet I wasn’t. I was busy letting a self-help guru on the screen tell me that I was going to feel better if I just believed enough. Where is there any valid Scripture that backs that up? There isn’t. We are not promised a good and easy life on this side of eternity, but we are promised in Matthew 28:20 that “lo I am with you always even to the end of the age.”

After the Lord eventually healed me over time, nothing that I did obviously, I turned to another false teacher unknowingly. This time not only was truth being twisted but it was from an authority who was not even fit to be teaching, Joyce Meyer. [W]omen [should not be] acting as pastors as defined in 1 Timothy 3:2 [and] are not to be exercising the authority of that role. Titus 1:6 states clearly the qualifications of a pastor, see below the text and how a woman cannot fit into this criteria for the office of pastor:

“namely, if any man is above reproach, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, not accused of dissipation or rebellion.”

[Lori] I used to watch Joyce Meyer every morning before I was saved and [fed] on her quick wit and sassy style. I used to think, “she’s just telling it like it is!” I remember thinking her “sermons” on the battle in your mind were just phenomenal. She was telling me how to just get over it and move on. It was a much starker difference than Joel. Joel was happy and feel good. Joyce was no-nonsense no frills just cut to the core motivation. She was teaching a false gospel of the little gods lesson as Vince mentioned above.

I had emailed asking for prayer during that time and not but a few weeks later did I get things in the mail from her ministry basically forcing an “offering” and that in order to continue being blessed, I needed to return money in the envelope that was sent. That happened repeatedly until I moved from that address. Many women who love that strong willed nature in a female buy into Joyce Meyer and all that she is selling. That is not the character of a godly woman,… Vince never really had any interest in most of the TV preachers. I never watched much TV anyway.
I did watch some of the more minor, non-heretical, not as popular teachers, but I never got into Joel Osteen, T.D. Jakes, Benny Hinn, Jesse Duplantis, or any of the other heretics on TV. However, before God graciously saved me, I could have watched them and probably not have given much thought to it. I probably would have thought some of it was strange…but heresy? I didn’t even know the word “heresy” existed until a couple of years ago. I surely did not know how deep and dark their teaching really goes, and how especially evil these men and women are. Justin Peters and his ministry [Justin Peters Ministries] really opened my eyes to most of that.

This movement is not only dangerous to the souls of many who are being falsely converted, but who are also being led in universal communions. We were witness to this concept at a Benny Hinn Crusade in Dallas, Texas in September. People were coming down the aisle in droves to get saved and were led in a universalistic communion. They were not told to examine themselves in light of Scripture in the biblical sense; it was completely twisted into believing that if you took the sacraments it would heal you from within. Dangerous beyond words.

There was a two-fold problem with this event, turning out false converts and then in the next minute leading them into communion that was not understood in the purest sense. This movement is sweeping the nation and the world and the people are so hungry for “something more” in their lives, they buy into this culture of health, wealth, and even fame for the exchange of all that they have. Among those already listed, a few of the more well known television preachers supporting this movement are as follows: Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, Creflo Dollar, T.D. Jakes, Paula White, Jessie Duplantis and several others.[1]

Vincent and Lori Williams www.vinceandloriministries.blogspot.com

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End notes:
[1] Vincent and Lori Williams, Falsified: The Danger Of False Conversion [Bloomington: WestBow Press, 2012], 36, 37, 38, 39.
See also:
T.D. JAKES SPEAKER THIS MONTH FOR PAULA WHITE’S A GOD ENCOUNTER
EMERGING ECUMENICAL EVANGELEPHANTS AND THE WORD FAITH MOVEMENT
SBC PASTOR ED YOUNG, JR PAYS HOMAGE TO JOEL OSTEEN