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Dwindling donations to the Living Word Christian Center in Brooklyn Park have prompted its high-profile pastor, Mac Hammond, to put his private business jet on the market.
Church spokesman the Rev. Brian Sullivan says Living Word has also cut its hourlong Sunday morning television broadcast to 30 minutes to save money.
He says the church has fallen $40,000 to $70,000 short of its weekly budget in recent weeks. Sullivan says the church is adjusting its budget accordingly.
Sullivan says the church’s problems could be a combination of the recession and the recent bad publicity about churches preaching the “Prosperity Gospel.”
The prosperity churches are based on the idea that success in business or personal life is evidence of God’s love.
Late last year, the U.S. Senate asked six churches to submit financial documents because of complaints about the lavish lifestyles of their ministers. Hammond was not among them.
Sullivan says the church is aggressively marketing the jet, and that the money raised from the sale would be reinvested in the ministry.
Times are tough all over, preacher man. See you in coach.
This guy is just a failure. He should have done like Billy Graham, and tell his sheeple that if they didn’t donate their hard earned cash to him NOW that he was going to die… Along with all of them!
It worked for Graham, it can work for another.
It’s amazing how people get over on the gullible when it comes to matters of mythology.
Remember, god ain’t nothing but dog spelled backwards!
My Dog is my co-pilot.
#21, Rabble,
Billy Graham has not been quoted as saying for his followers to send money NOW or he would die. That was Pat Robertson.
Graham takes a small salary and plows most of their gifts back into his work. I am not a Graham follower, but I don’t believe in maligning a man who tries to practice the poverty he preaches.
If you are going to malign someone, at least get your facts straight.
Words about “Prophets” from the Bible:
Jeremiah 14:14 (King James Version)
14Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets(Profits) prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
Matthew 7:15 (King James Version)
15Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves(in loud jackets).
With parenthetical emendations …