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Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church received $4.4M COVID-19 PPP loan
nypost ^ | 12/15/2020 | Lia Eustachewich

Posted on 12/15/2020 9:50:44 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

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To: Dilbert San Diego

2. Why is there animosity to his church apparently participating in the paycheck protection program? If his church has employees who were kept on the payroll and avoided unemployment, due to legally participating in this program, why is there hostility to a legal business getting legal benefits of some sort?

I think his church has enough monies to continue to pay his employees. His daddy was a hell fire and brimstone preacher who preached the way to heaven or hell.....your choice. Joel preaches monetary success which is fine and dandy but what does it profit a man to gain the world and lose his own soul? I don’t trust these “financial” televangelists......but that’s just me.


21 posted on 12/15/2020 10:39:12 AM PST by Dawgreg
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To: bray

If the church is shut down how do you pay your employees.
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Same way you paid them before if you’ve taught your church members properly. Tithing isn’t contingent on you being physically in church.


22 posted on 12/15/2020 10:42:56 AM PST by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: Texas Eagle
What’s the interest rate? On the loan, I mean.

It’s a ‘don’t have to payback loan’ if the money was used for salaries of employees

23 posted on 12/15/2020 11:11:01 AM PST by 11th_VA (Et Tu Fox News ?)
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To: Paulie

True.


24 posted on 12/15/2020 11:11:16 AM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: 11th_VA

Whoa.


25 posted on 12/15/2020 11:12:16 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, demonicRATS would have no standards at all.)
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To: bray

Our small church of 150 went to the parking lot service over local transmitter and Facebook during the spring/summer shutdown and we never missed a payment to any employee or vendor, and in fact our weekly offerings went up, we were over our projected budget by the end of the fiscal year September first and we took no PPP or government money. In fact we had to fight off our idiot governor and local health department apparatchiks who tried to shut us down because someone heard one of the pastors messages on facebook and got their panties in a wad and filed a complaint on us with the health department—they failed despite threats of sending the state police to shut us down.


26 posted on 12/15/2020 11:15:10 AM PST by sarge83
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Mormons call it Bleed the Beast.

I recommend we all bleed the beast, get your share before the failed Republic runs out of money. It is your money.


27 posted on 12/15/2020 11:58:57 AM PST by DEPcom (The Republic is in great danger.)
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To: eyeamok

little people lost everything and yet we have millions for indian casinos and mega churches.


28 posted on 12/15/2020 12:27:59 PM PST by cherry (TRUMP WON!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He is a POS


29 posted on 12/15/2020 12:36:53 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: al baby

A boil on the butt of the “Body of Christ.”


30 posted on 12/15/2020 3:34:22 PM PST by Babba Gi
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Beat me to it. I may disagree with his church philosophy and other things about him but this is a legal program designed by the Feds to keep people employed. If he has complied with the rules the loan is up to 100% forgivable. If he has not complied with all of the rules he will have to pay it back with interest.


31 posted on 12/15/2020 4:41:50 PM PST by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.(DT4POTUS))
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