Senator Punts Televangelist Inquiry for “Self-Reform Within the Community”
Late yesterday Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee who three years ago launched an investigation into the finances of six leading televangelists, released staff reports detailing the results of its probe into the ministries. While the probe was initially launched to examine whether the ministries had abused their tax-exempt status by using tax-exempt funds for personal enrichment, Grassley is not recommending any changes to the tax law to prevent such abuse, but rather a review by the Evangelical Council on Financial Accountability, which was formed in the 1970s.
According to a statement from Grassley's spokesperson, the EFCA will be forming a Commission on Accountability and Policy for Religious Organizations to review Grassley's staff reports. (The reports, released late yesterday, are lengthy and I haven't had a chance to read them in detail, but...
These preachers & their flocks are motivated and enticed soley by material gain, “whose God is their belly, and whose glory is their shame, who mind earthly things” (Phil 3:19), but know nothing of the “unsearchable riches of Jesus Christ.” (Eph. 3:8) If you wish to hear of these UNSEARCHABLE RICHES, I commend to you the God-glorifying, Christ-centered ministry of PASTOR MICHAEL PICKETT.
Those who sincerely wish to “follow on to know the Lord” and grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ, and be “built up in their most holy faith” will be greatly blessed by this man of God's preaching / teaching ministry. His preaching is marked by sound doctrine and the wholesome words of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Eph. 3:7-8: “Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. Unto me, who am less than the least of all the saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;”
BTW "the business dealings of...Creflo Dollar" when I was last in Barnes and Noble, they had a lot of copies of his new book that have not sold in several months, even through the holiday season. I have heard that when someone like Dollar writes a book, he gets the 1099 royalties up front because it's his book, but the ministry buys the copies from the publisher and then tries to sell them. This is one practice that isn't illegal, but is definitely questionable.
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