Monday, December 28, 2009

The Devil Stole 3 Million Dollars!!!


Rod Parsley:  The Devil Stole $3 Million Dollars.  Help Me Get it Back!


Todd Rhodes:
TV Evangelist Rod Parsley (from my home state of Columbus) is asking for a financial miracle before December 31.  Rod is asking people to "help me take back what the devil stole?"  The appeal said that there was a $3 million dollar deficit even after cutting the budget 30% during the year.
This isn't a big story.  I mean, a lot of TV evangelists make big pleas for funds.  They have for years.

What is interesting in this story, according to the Columbus Dispatch, is that Parsley's church settled for $3.1 million this year with a family whose son was spanked at its day-care center in 2006, to the point his buttocks and legs were covered with welts and abrasions.

According to a statement by the church:  "The decision imposed against us earlier this year has made our circumstances more serious."  I'm sure it did.

But if this $3 million is the same $3 million that Parsley is asking for because the devil stole it from them... that sure makes for a different scenario.

(If I was a betting man, I would guess that the $3 million was an insurance claim against the church rather than coming straight from the church coffers).

Here's my read:  the day of the big TV evangelists is over.  It could be that the $3 million dollars wasn't actually stolen by Satan.  It could be that people are waking up and finding that their money is better when not placed in the hands of a TV evangelist.

2 comments:

patrick said...

Mate, bold post - but needed! Good work brother! like your work!

Paul Wilkinson (Thinking Out Loud) said...

Is there something about being on television that causes preachers' doctrine to morph into a diatribe of empty promises and shallow exegesis; or rather, is it the same virus that infects their theology that also compels them to buy television broadcast airtime from local stations?