Just 54 million.Where is old timer when you need him?It appears Jesse is trying to keep up with Copeland. I guess his faith looks weak if he can’t have the latest and greatest.I hope all of you preachers realize how greedy this makes all of you look. All you widows sending God $15 through Jesse need to wake up and smell the coffee.Somebody needs to stand up to these clowns.www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/29/louisiana-televangelist-seeks-donations-for-54m-private-jet-report.html________________
Come on… it is a necessary expense…. when overseers stop using chartered planes to make it to camp meetings to campaign for general assembly then I will complain. (Probably not). Don’t pretend that hasn’t happened. I have worked with a handfuls pastors that have planes nothing wrong with it. Especially when one ministry’s plane was the first to land with supplies after the Nepal and Hatti earthquakes even before the Red Cross. What people don’t know about crefflo dollar’s plane was that they had a bad landing and nearly crashed off the run with his family on board he wanted a safe and more capable plane that could handle the load of a having an international ministry on 6 continents. It wasn’t long ago that I saw Perry Stone and Jentezen Franklin video Periscope there plane leaking fuel out of an engine and make an emergency landing in Roanoke Virginia. They were on the plane acting like that periscope was there last will and testament. Here is the video of the emergency plane landingwww.periscope.tv/w/1PlKQZrNmPBGE
Look I love you guys NBF and Dave. All I am saying is think differently. A plane is a tool for the gospel. It can move missionaries and staff around way more efficiently than a commercial airline can.
In 2015, Samaritan’s Purse dedicated a hangar in Kenya to store three planes. These planes are used in an area where there aren’t roads to some places. The three aircraft were a King Air B200 ($5.8m), a Cessna 208B ($1.8m), and a a DC-3TP ($1.4m).Duplantis wants a Falcon 7X, which costs $52m, and will be the fourth luxury jet in his fleet.
Don’t forget these facts from the same report…- Jesse also didn’t think Jesus would use a donkey if he came today…that shows his mindset.- Jesse says he really only needs it because he must refuel this jet – and it sometimes cost more to refuel overseas. Hmmm, how much extra fuel charge would it take to make the 52 million outlay a wise investment? It doesn’t take too many semesters of accounting to see that’s quite a few overpriced gallons to get to 52 million.I truly feel sorry for anyone that feels this is a legit expense________________
Watch the video in question youtu.be/1VZgH3ATm9MJesse doesn’t own 3 planes. He owned 3 planes. If you watch the tape to the end you can see that one plane is with a minister in Arkansas and the other plane is owned by a South American pastor doing missions work.
I truly feel sorry for anyone who think jesus would not use all available means to preach the Gospel. I guess some are content with and stand with Judas when that woman broke the alabaster box. That was a years wages. Oh my that was too expensive… But Jesus rebuked then and said what the women did was beautiful. Jesus used a boat to preach and travel…. someone could complain and say why did Jesus need the boat. Please people let the elevator go to the top. People those were the extent of transportation in the ancient world.
Jesse Duplantis is a wolf in sheeps clothing,cut from the same cloth as Dollar,Copeland,Hinn,and others. Like all of them, he uses just enough gospel to dupe the masses into believing he is a man of gawd.Using an open mind, try spending a little time comparing his words with the real Gospel. When I think of how many struggling ministers are out there barely getting by, and then see this charlatan fleecing people who should know better,I wonder how he sleeps at night. Then again, something tells me he has no problem doing so________________“Hell will be filled with people that didn’t cuss, didn’t drink, and may even have been baptized. Why? Because none of those things makes someone a Christian.”
I truly feel sorry for anyone who think jesus would not use all available means to preach the Gospel. I guess some are content with and stand with Judas when that woman broke the alabaster box. That was a years wages. Oh my that was too expensive… But Jesus rebuked then and said what the women did was beautiful. Jesus used a boat to preach and travel…. someone could complain and say why did Jesus need the boat. Please people let the elevator go to the top. People those were the extent of transportation in the ancient world.
He must need a better plane, the article says his only 68. By his looks and the time he’s been around, I thought he had to be near 80. He’s showing the miles for sure. However, how much would First Class tickets cost and how long would it take to reach $50M?
Some of my peon thinking also. Especially if you have someone to make the arrangements for you and you are eligible for the ‘fast-thru’ lines where you do not have to wait like the peons. You can be at the airport 30 minutes early ans still have time to relax with a cup of coffee! I have a friend whose life is travel and he says the connections are the same as they were 30 years ago. Zip right into your plane. ________________Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/
Convenience with need. There are legitimate expenses that a ministry must endure. Being a pastor with a yearly budget south of 500 thousand, I do not pretend to understand the line items of a world-wide ministry like Jesse’s. However, even on a meager budget, there are decisions we all have to make based on is this something we NEED, or simply something we WANT?________________
LP, I was raised in a parsonage by a dedicated man. Dad considered himself over looking ‘God’s Money’, and it was used frugally and carefully. He was definitely a ‘debt free’ believer and took his responsibility seriously knowing GOD was his overseer________________Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/
This really has to do with whether or not the WoF health and wealth gospel is true. If it is, then Duplantis’ ministry has the obvious smile of God upon it. If on the other hand the prosperity gospel is false, well then he is quite obviously a major false teacher/prophet. Can sanity be found somewhere in the middle?It seems to me that what the WoF message itself calls us to deal with is the question of extremes. As far as I know, all Pentecostals believe in divine healing being in the atonement and also believe in miracles and even financial miracles. What the WoF message does is it takes these core ideas in Pentecostalism (divine healing and miracles available today), to their extreme by saying that it is always God’s will not only to heal you and provide for you, but that divine HEALTH and WEALTH are God’s perfect will for us in this life. I recall hearing a good Bible college professor I knew saying, “Heresy is just truth pressed out of measure.†I think one major problem with the WoF teaching is, “How does one define how prosperous is too prosperous?†Major Pentecostal denoms such as the AG used to have planes for their missions departments (I am not sure if they do now). Was that excessive? I’m sure some felt it was.
That’s a great question. 1 Tim 3:7might be a good place to start. You’ll have some people who will despise anything a faith-based organization does, of course, but I suspect most unbelievers who reviewed Samaritan’s Purse or the AOG’s use of planes for missions would conclude they are reasonable expenditures.