Posted by Melvin Jones on December 22nd, 2006
I guess it had to happen. Rock star preachers are drawn to cars, mansions, and jets like a pedophile is drawn to children. It seems that yet another gospel Big Dog is trying to get a jet.
One of my set of eyes out there sent in a link for me to check out. Click here and take a look at the site for yourself. That’s right , Benny “There’s-nine-of-Them” Hinn is now using every one of the pimp tricks in his bag to get his ‘hos out there to buy him a jet. And it’s a sweet jet, too.
He needs the jet because of the tremendous work he is doing to drag souls into the Kingdom. Obviously he can’t keep up the burdensome schedule he has unless he is free of the inconveniences brought on by flying scheduled airlines.
I guess if he personally has to be in all these places since God can’t do anything through a home-grown missionary (things like preach the Gospel), he figures he can avoid some wear and tear on his body by having a private jet to whisk him from here to there, free of the bondage or schedules that have the rest of us tied up in knots.
Mr. Hinn is trying to convince the boobs who listen to him to fund the purchase of a Gulfstream G4SP. Click here to see the kind of plane he’s trying to get.
I do believe this one is bigger than the one Copeland talked himself into. I guess in the world of the Big Dogs, size does matter.
But you can’t say Benny is thinking only of himself in all of this. If you give a thousand dollars or more toward the purchase of the aircraft, Benny Hinn Ministries will give you a “…beautiful art quality model” of the Gulfstream. Any one care to hazard a guess on what an “art quality model” is?
If you give less than a thousand, well…they’ll put your name in a conspicuous place within the cabin of the aircraft. According to the brochure, it will be prominently placed in the area where Benny studies. That’s not all that comforting a thought though. You see, one of things you quickly figure out as a parent of four children, is that you end up doing a lot of studying in the toilet , nobody bothers you in the toilet.
Ah yes, I can see it now, the bathroom’s door panel is lined with the names of the men and women duped into giving money to preen this pimp’s ego.
But wait! There’s more. Not only do you get your name plastered on the inside of the toilet door, you get the following:
1. Your name travels with Benny as he dupes more people
2. He’ll intercede for you in the world’s highest prayer tower (the Gulfstream flies at an altitude of 40 thousand feet)
3. Benny will also ask God to pour out an unusual and unprecedented anointing for you life.
A couple of fairly interesting facts to consider.
1. According to the Trinity Foundation, the cost of operating the Gulfstream for one trip is more than the cost of buying first class tickets for the entire staff traveling to swindle more people out of their money. This cost doesn’t even address the issues of required inspections, maintenance, insurance, recurrent training, oh, and the crew to operate the aircraft.
2. Aircraft very much like this one can be chartered, just like a bus. They run on your schedule, avoid the airlines and their relative inconveniences, and they don’t cost you, the user a cent to operate. You don’t pay for the crew, the maintenance, or the inspections. And you still get to where you are going at 0.8 Mach.
Then again, given the deceptions and errors Benny preaches, I can’t see that there is a particularly good reason to get him from one place to another with any particular speed. In fact, it would probably be best if he did get stuck at Denver Internationa for a week.
It’s amazing to watch these pimps come up with new and improved ways to separate you from your money. It’s even more amazing to watch you willingly hand it over to them.
Think about it: Jesus, the Creator of the Universe, walked where ever He had to go. He walked all over Israel. In fact, He even walked part way across the sea of Galilee.
Paul probably stepped it up a little. I figure he sometimes rode horses (like the one he fell from when he was looking for some Christians to persecute). Please note that Paul and the other Apostles have been described as the men who turned the world upside down.
For them, it wasn’t about corporate efficiencies or physical comforts. It was about giving yourself to the ministry, not getting stuff out of the ministry.
Most of these pimps and pimp-wannabes have a huge house (built on from the money snookered from the congregation). More and more they are getting jets (fueled by the ignorance and naïveté of the congregations). More and more of them brag about being close friends of the leaders of the world. More and more of them are moving further and further away from the truth of the Gospel. And more and more of these pimps are dragging their dupes into hell with them.
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