{"id":268,"date":"2015-05-28T23:26:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T23:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2015-05-28T23:27:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T23:27:05","slug":"dollar-a-good-name-for-this-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/2015\/05\/28\/dollar-a-good-name-for-this-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dollar–A Good Name for This Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some folks apparently missed the bit in Scripture where Jesus said, \u201cYou cannot serve both God and Money.\u201d \u00a0Mega-rich pastors preaching the false gospel of prosperity are probably one of the biggest things,\u00a0after pedophile priests, to give\u00a0Christianity a bad name in the world.<\/p>\n

Take the latest controversy regarding the televangelist with the rather appropriate\u00a0name of Creflo Dollar:<\/p>\n

\u2026the finances of the televangelist\u2019s 30,000-member church, World Changers Church International in College Park, Georgia, are under close scrutiny after Dollar asked his followers to buy him a $65 million private jet.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dollar\u2019s sermons pack his 8,500-seat mega-church, and like any house of worship, the church is non-profit and tax-exempt, reports CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann.<\/em><\/p>\n

His ministry has prospered with satellite churches in at least a dozen states and hundreds of thousands of online followers. Dollar owns a multi-million dollar mansion and condo.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read it all: http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/televangelist-creflo-dollar-under-scrutiny-asking-for-65-million-private-jet\/<\/a><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some folks apparently missed the bit in Scripture where Jesus said, \u201cYou cannot serve both God and Money.\u201d \u00a0Mega-rich pastors preaching the false gospel of prosperity are probably one of the biggest things,\u00a0after pedophile priests, to give\u00a0Christianity a bad name in the world. Take the latest controversy regarding the televangelist with the rather appropriate\u00a0name of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[156,158,157],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-of-the-fall","tag-creflo-dollar","tag-prosperity-gospel","tag-televangelists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}