Here’s a posting from Deb in Atlanta. I only made a couple of editorial modifications.
Does Peter sound as if he is describing any of the pimps we may have mentioned here in Pulpit Pimps?
Proverbs 27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Note: Word of Faith/Gospel of Prosperity:
It doesn’t matter who’s teaching it, it is a devilish LIE and no
lie is of the TRUTH!
2 Peter 2:1 …even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
1. Privily: Privately, secretly.
2. Damnable: In a low or ludicrous sense, odious, detestable, or pernicious.
3. Heresy: in law, is an offense against Christianity, consisting in a denial of some of its essential doctrines, publicly avowed and obstinately maintained.
2 Peter 2:3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you…
1. Covetouness: A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; usually in a bad sense, and applied to an inordinate desire of wealth or avarice. At First Baptist Church of Glenarden, Clint Brown was bragging about the fact taht he was wearing a $60,000 rolex and has a collection of them at home. I guess he’s just keeping his eyes on the prize.
2. Feigned: Invented, devised, imagined, assumed.
3. Merchandise: The objects of commerce, wares, goods, commodities, whatever is usually bought or sold in trade. Trade, traffic, commerce.
2 Peter 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
1 John 2:18 Little children, it is the last time; and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrist whereby we know that it is the last time.
Hebrews 3:12 Take heed brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God.
(MN: I already covered a little about this guy. Go here and find out that John Jenkins the head pimp at First Baptist Church of Glenarden has a fairly cozy relationshipp with this clown. )
I Just found this article on Clint Brown:
Divorce Records: Pastor’s Lavish Lifestyle Funded By Church
WFTV Channel 9 News (FL)/January 12, 2005
Orange County, Fla. — Channel 9 has uncovered the financial records of a nasty divorce involving the head of one of Central Florida’s largest churches. The records detail how Pastor Clint Brown, and his wife Angie, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars from FaithWorld’s large congregation.
In one case, Brown spent $70,000 in church money on women’s clothing that his wife and daughter never received.
The divorce fillings indicate this couple, admired for their family values, had a relationship that was irretrievably broken. Records show they lived a lavish lifestyle, largely financed by the members of their church.
Pastor Brown’s Sunday morning services are filled spirited sermons and rock and roll music. On FaithWorld’s website, Brown asks for donations of up to $1,000 to “spread praise to the world.”
The financial documents in Pastor Brown’s divorce file show many of those contributions aren’t spread much further than he and his estranged wife, Angie.
Their home in Alaqua cost $1.4 million. The $7,000 a month mortgage is paid for by FaithWorld. So is the electricity, lawn care and pool maintenance.
Angie Brown drives a $95,000 Mercedes. Parishioners pay for that, too, along with the $531 in monthly insurance.
Even after all those perks, FaithWorld still pays Pastor Brown a generous salary. He made more than a half million dollars last year. His attorney says much of that came from the church.
Maybe most interesting in the divorce file is the couple’s American Express bills. There are plenty of lavish shopping trips, spending thousands at Burberry’s, Neiman Marcus and Gucci.
According to the divorce records, “In excess of $70,000 was charged by the husband to different woman’s clothing stores and paid for by FaithWorld during a twelve month period.
But Angie Brown and her daughter say they never saw the clothes.
Pastor Brown’s attorney tells Channel 9 that Brown spent the money on gifts for woman ministers at churches he visits around the country.
Channel 9 did try to speak to Pastor Brown and his wife Wednesday. His attorney said he was out of state and her attorney never called back.
Clint Brown has been a pastor in Central Florida since 1993. He bought the FaithWorld property in 1999 from televangelist Benny Hinn, who is now in Texas. At the time, Brown said the church was nearly $6 million in debt.