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Post by Boyd Percy on May 29, 2018 21:21:02 GMT -5
You probably remember that Jennifer Hoffman (Jennlynn Swift, a/k/a Learjet Jenn) traded her Lear Jet for Cessna Citation for about $2.5 million in the last chapter Hearts of Gold. New Orleans preacher, Jesse Duplantis, is asking his followers to come with $54 million to replace his 2006 business jet. He argues that Jesus, if he were on earth today, wouldn't be riding on the back of a donkey, but in a jet going around to spread the word of God. Jesse is noted for being quite a showman.
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Post by James Henry on May 29, 2018 22:17:14 GMT -5
Ah, so a preacher is buying a business jet. I take it preaching is a business? He has a business license in addition to a divinity degree (latter from Universal Life Church?)? Is he licensed to do business in all the places that jet lands? What would Nanci think of all this? Inquiring minds want to know.
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Post by Boyd Percy on May 30, 2018 0:34:54 GMT -5
Wait, there's even more!
In the last year or so, Creflo Dollar, a black minister in Georgia, sought from his followers, $65 million, for a new jet. I don't if he got the money or the jet. But if he did, maybe that's what inspired Jesse Duplantis. Jesse is white, by the way. Audaciousness has no color. Maybe green is the prime color for them. Both ministers preach what is called the "prosperity gospel" and have done well financially for themselves.
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Post by Andy Haworth on May 30, 2018 1:43:32 GMT -5
The first thing that strikes me about the life style of these Evangelical preachers is that is is funded in the main by the people who can least afford it.
Nearly all studies show that the majority of Evangelical and Pentecostal Christians come from the poorer and under educated classes of society. In the sixties it was assumed that they would move up the social scales along with all other religious groups, but this hasn't happened, it would appear that if their children do become educated they move away, find new friends and leave their religions.
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Post by Boyd Percy on May 30, 2018 13:59:37 GMT -5
Kenneth Copeland's followers just bought him a Gulfstream jet previously owned by actor Tyler Perry. They plan to spend $2.5 million in upgrades. He's another "prosperity gospel" advocate.
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