without walls, without sense
It seems Paula and Randy White of Without Walls International Church in Tampa are so fond of Texas pastor, Bishop TD Jakes, that they gave him a Bentley for his birthday.
Apparently, Jakes took the car.
I’m not sure which model. But Bentleys range in price from $169,000 up.
That outrageous expenditure and others by the Whites - multiple expensive houses, multiple expensive cars, multiple expensive cosmetic procedures - are being examined by the US Senate Committee on Finance.
Dan Ruth’s column Thursday about the latest church scandal puts a savage and wonderfully humorous spin on the Whites and others also being investigated by the committee, including TD Jakes.
I can’t laugh about it.
The Tampa Tribune, which broke the Without Walls story earlier this year, provided an update in Sunday’s paper.
I just wish while the committee is investigating the church’s finances, the Whites could examine their own hearts and souls.
Prosperity theology is one thing - and it has other proponents besides the Whites and Jakes.
It has its critics, too. To see more of both, just Google prosperity theology.
It just seems that no matter what theological highway you are motoring on, Bentley’s as gifts to others who preach the same message, such as Jakes, is taking things a car too far.
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November 12th, 2007 at 7:31 am
dead bodies under neath my bakery
i lease teh oriental bakery here at 3115 west columbus drive tampa 33607. 1985 this mal was built on old cemetery-bodies still beneath=AP BOza wa stomove em never did have 1st hand proof-was ther at first excavation when huma reamins skulls etc headstones destroye dto cover up have mo details
my bakery was built in 1985 atop vacated Marti Cemetery but many dead bodies still beneath here
dead bodies under neath my bakery
i lease teh oriental bakery here at 3115 west columbus drive tampa 33607. 1985 this mal was built on old cemetery-bodies still beneath=AP BOza wa stomove em never did have 1st hand proof-was ther at first excavation when huma reamins skulls etc headstones destroye dto cover up have mo details
November 12th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Prosperity theology is for tacky, idiotic, redneck, evangelist trashbags.
Spiritual leadership and material wealth are not mutually exclusive - look at the Vatican - but there can’t possibly be anyone who truly thinks that financial decisions and spiritual guidance should be made by the same person - especially when that person is using all the money for himself and his friends.
These people are pieces of shit.
November 12th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
I attend a church that struggles to give its pastor a decent cost-of-living raise, then I read about glossy moneygrubbers like the Whites (and Jakes and Copeland and the list goes on and on) who evidently realize their reward won’t be in Heaven so they’re trying to collect it here, and as fast as they can rake it in. Not only do these types make me sick, they make me sad. But before they explain themselves to the Lord, I can’t wait to see them doing the same on Capitol Hill very soon. (Props to the Trib for staying on top of Without Souls. Somebody wake up the IRS.)