Posted on 06/10/2012 11:09:12 AM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
Then Rev. Zachary Tims, pastor of an Orlando megachurch, exposed for having an affair with a stripper, found dead in a New York City hotel room with a white powder in his pocket.
Now Creflo Dollar, charged with physically abusing his teen-age daughter.
That is what happens when those called by God lose their anointing
Sad to hear of this.
I don’t much like televangelists (Charles Stanley being the major exception).
Pray for him and his daughter.
Dude’s a poser from the beginning.
I mean, his very name tells us what he’s about.
A little Obamanics creeping in?
“The Spirit of God Has Departed from Creflo Dollar”
That sounds like a huge overstatment don’t you think?
He’s only human, his girl could be lieing. Give the benefit of doubt till he’s charged and has a trial. God never leaves anyone. HE’S always there.
15 year old daughters can be very aggravating.
No, we're definitely not going traditional...Creflo is the name the Mrs and I have chosen. It's gonna be Creflo.
Creflo? You be kiddin'?
Nope. Creflo it be.
Who shall guard the guardians? It is a shame whenever a cult of personality overshadows the Gospel, because when the human fails, as he/she will, it damages the ministry most of all. The situation could have been saved by a press conference that said “I am human, I got angry, I failed, I pray for the forgiveness of my daughter, my friends, the church, and Jesus.” Pulling back inside the shell of false piety? You just killed your church, pal.
Every time I randomly happened upon one of his telecasts he was repeating the phrase ‘Now wait a minute....’ Apparently this is meant to convey some sort of conversational aspect to his sermons but it is clearly shtick and as such got old in about 30 sec.
Three couples are in a bad wreck after a dinner party and end up at the Pearly Gates. St Peter tells the first man he will never enter Heaven because he is such a glutton, he married a woman named Candy. They leave. He tells the second man he is out because he worships money so much, he married a gal named Penny. They leave. Third man turns to his wife and says, "We might as well leave, too, Fanny."
Proof...
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I always refer to him as Creflo “send me your Dollars”
Whether the daughters are lying or whether it’s he, it doesn’t look good for the reputation of that family. Either way things are out of control.
As a once-saved-always-saved “Cal-minian,” I think it’s putting it a bit extremely to say the spirit of God has simply gone from him — although he may well have sacrificed some special anointings and blessings by the way he may have carried on.
Did Rev. Dollar bestow that name on himself? Or was that his born name? If he didn’t choose it, there’s not much point in ragging on him about it.
Either that, or if it was true a frank denial, but not this coy game. Oughtn’t it have been his attorney speaking rather than a church spokesman, if he is afraid to speak for fear of making his case look worse?
Who knows—maybe going ‘tribal’ on his rebellious daughter somehow saves her from greater ruin. A good dad would not allow his 15 year old daughter to attend a late night party. Bad things could happen there especially among the tribal kind.
“15 year old daughters can be very aggravating.”
I was one, I had one, you are right.
Don’t know about the strangling and shoe beating, but I had some sympathy for our friend Alec Baldwin in that phone call incident.
I remember listening to Sean Hannity deride him and I wanted to call in and say “your kids are still little and cute, I want to know what you think about this when your kids are 20”.
I, myself, was incorrigible. My daughter less so, but she had this little strategy she’d use, I called it building the wall of hostility. She’d start picking fights over any and every little thing. By the time Friday or Saturday would come and she’d want to go do something I wasn’t really keen on, she’d have me so ticked off with her that I wouldn’t even want to be bothered to argue about whatever it was.
I wised up to that after a while.
She turned out fine, in the end, but teenage girls are THE WORST.
The bible warns fathers not to provoke their children to anger; and before making such judgmental statements you might at least show you can read the story accurately. It does not say “tribal.”
Fight picking is a kind of bullying, and it’s sad no matter who initiates it. Frosty silence is about as good an answer to that as anything.
Oh loosen up....
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