Kenneth Copeland's new Jet

Feel free to share where the line is Bert. After all, I am sure you believe that the Bible has everything we need to know about living the Christian life so the line has to be in there somewhere. Some of us are just too dense to see it I guess.

I want to know the line because I need to know if it is OK for me to upgrade the countertops in my bathroom to granite or should they remain cultured marble.

Sorry, Bert. You misread what I wrote. I did not say “America’s standard of living makes Scripture’s comment on the matter a dead letter”. I did say that “extravagance” is in the eye of the beholder. To people living in a trash dump in Buenos Ares, your Big Mac lunch is an extravagance. You cannot condemn a jet as extravagance without condemning yourself as a hypocrite.

My main point is we who never pay any attention at all to Copeland’s ministry get all upset and condemn it over a jet WE DID NOT GIVE TO. If you do not want to belong to a church or a ministry group that owns its own jet, fine. But, if other denominations or ministries do, and ask for donors to give to it, what is that to me? Nothing!

Consider this. Church A has a vibrant youth ministry and desires to build a $500,000 playland in their facility. They paid for it by a donation campaign free and clear. You at Church B think all of that is unnecessary and extravagant. You never gave any money to this campaign either. What is it to you if Church A does something you disagree with?

Copeland’s jet is just like that.

[Mark_Smith]

Sorry, Bert. You misread what I wrote. I did not say “America’s standard of living makes Scripture’s comment on the matter a dead letter”. I did say that “extravagance” is in the eye of the beholder. To people living in a trash dump in Buenos Ares, your Big Mac lunch is an extravagance. You cannot condemn a jet as extravagance without condemning yourself as a hypocrite.

OK, if indeed whether something demonstrates extravagance is in the eye of the beholder, all we need to do to justify any level is to use a community of hedge fund managers as our reference, in which case indeed the Scriptures that ought to rein in our lusts would indeed be dead letters.

See where I’m coming from, Mark?

It’s not so much the jet itself, it’s the false teaching and the fleecing that enabled him to buy the jet.

Greg says it all. These false teachers mostly go after the poor and desolate with the promise of good fortune and blessings that only come from giving to them.