Cost Of Megachurch Pastor’s Mansion Is God’s Little Secret
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Cost Of Megachurch Pastor’s Mansion Is God’s Little Secret
Meet Steven Furtick, pastor of Elevation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. He has a mansion, but not a yacht (as far as we know). He likes the nice things God has sent his way, like a gift for preaching and also a 16,000-square-foot home on 19 acres, which is about what God wants, since He’s helped Furtick get enough people to donate to his ministry to buy the thing. No clearer message of God’s favor than that, now is there?
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In my Father's house there is much bling
Furtick — and we may as well get our biases out in the open here; we keep misreading his name as some kind of combination of “Furtive” and “Fuckstick” — recently explained to an interviewer from a local TV station that God won’t allow him to go into the details of how much the house cost or how much money he rolls around in naked while thanking Sweet Jesus.
You see, it would simply be wrong, according to his deeply held beliefs, for Furtick and his wife Holly to get into all that, because the Bible commands Christians to be humble. That’s why this simple mansion-dwelling preacher of the Prosperity Gospel can’t reveal how much money he has:
I know that we have to have integrity and we have to be generous, and I know the extent of which that is true for me and Holly. So to go on record and say here’s how much money we’ve given and here’s what we do with our finances, to me, that would be the most arrogant thing I could do and it would rob me of the blessings of what Jesus said, which is that when you give, you don’t get up and tell everyone how much you’ve given.”
Now, sure, some church employees have talked to the media about how much money Elevation Church takes in, but darned if Furtick is going to tell some reporter a lot of details. That would be ungodly, no matter what some of his talkative brethren may have claimed.
So when you give one part of a picture, whether that’s how much one of the staff members, what they make, that’s between them and God. That’s not mine to release, and the same with my family. I wouldn’t do that to my wife and my kids. I wouldn’t do that to one of our staff members.
Mercy no! Never mind that the value of Furtick’s mansion and estate has been estimated at something like $16 million; the pastor wants to emphasize he is a humble servant of God, called to harvest whatever he can from the rubes. We mean, called to help others achieve God’s will for them. And maybe to accept whatever love offerings his flock might make.
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to get robbed. 
The most eye opening part of that John Oliver segment is when he talks about how rarely churches are audited. As in your odds of getting a church audited are greater than your chances of winning the lottery. We need to start cracking down on these liars and grifters. 
