But if I see or hear Benny Hinn for example I don't feel peace. Last Week then played a series of damning clips of televangelists requesting “seed” money on their programs, including Murdock convincing those deep in credit card debt to donate $1,000 to his church in order to sow a “seed” to God that will eventually wipe out said debt. Our digital archives are a work in progress. Yup! There is no justifiable reason why anyone would believe him. We and our partners will store and/or access information on your device through the use of cookies and similar technologies, to display personalised ads and content, for ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. Everything is fun, no problems, but eventually it leads to death. Televangelists Jan and Paul Crouch of the Costa Mesa-based Trinity Broadcasting Network have purchased a Newport Beach house for close to $5 million, Orange County Realtors say. 1 decade ago. Let’s stop giving our money to the rich and start feeding the hungry. Then you wake up in the morning to find out your back account is overdrawn because you planted a 1,000 seed, OUCH.
If he had people who'd given him money suing him over their donations, you might have a tort case, but it's too sticky and fraught with constitutional challenges to just get picked up by a prosecutor. And, since they run a “church,” the Copelands can live in a $6.3 million mega-mansion tax-free, since it’s designated a “parsonage.”, To further prove his point, Oliver and Last Week Tonight claimed to have corresponded with televangelist Robert Tilton’s Word of Faith Worldwide Church for seven months, first mailing him $20 in January along with a kindly-worded request to be added to his mailing list.“Within two weeks, he sent me a letter back thanking me for my donation, and claiming, ‘I believe that God has supernaturally brought us together.’” A couple of weeks after that, Oliver received an envelope with a $1 bill in it and a message that read, “Send it back to me with your best Prove God tithes or offering.”“That’s right,” Oliver said, “I had to send the $1 back with an additional recommended offering of $37, which I did. They are basically selling a promise or an IOU for a miracle.
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