No one but the Lord knows where Paul Crouch went, BUT they took grannies grocery money and spent it on hairdos, wigs, jets, and mansions.
I don’t care how they started. They became corrupted. Do I think they were all PHONIES? You betcha! I don’t care how many countries TBN reaches. They were and are greedy SOBs.
(Sons Of Beelzebub).
If the rumors about this are right, they sinned (but again they sell media and mementos... they don’t run everything off of sheer donations).
Is it possible to sin but to yet also share a genuine gospel?
Reason says yes.
Bible history says yes.
Why we are so blue in the face saying no, is a puzzle. I don’t have to worship the Crouches to praise the Lord big time for what they did in spite of any of their sins.
I wish even 1% of Christians would have the moxie to strive to go big time with the gospel. Sinning or not.
I like the way that the late Dave Hunt put it. No one who acted like these people do, who teach the outlandish heresies that they do, who tell the blatant lies that they do, all under the pretense of Christ, could be a true believer. No one who really believes the sobering, majestic truths of Scripture could be so deceitful.
He considered them unbelievers, and plainly said so.
>> “BUT they took grannies grocery money and spent it on hairdos, wigs, jets, and mansions.” <<
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Yes, they certainly did that, which many evangelists do, putting them in a class with Baalam, showing that one can be a prophet of Yehova without necessarily be one of his elect.