Dateline NBC also questioned the ministry’s financial integrity. Although Benny Hinn’s ministry does not release information about its finances to the public, Dateline was able to find many problems in the financial aspect. An investigation showed severe problems with accountability, revealing that
Benny Hinn maintains an extravagant lifestyle at the expense of his followers. In 1997 a CNN report also criticized him for lavish spending practices. There are estimates that total ministry revenue exceeds $100 million a year. This has allowed him to accumulate a fortune as a television faith healer and to live in a big, expensive mansion. The personal perks for Hinn, family and his entourage include a $10 million seaside mansion; a private jet with annual operating costs of about $1.5 million; a Mercedes SUV and convertible, each valued at about $80,000. Watch the video:
Televangelism has become a business, where preachers work towards better rating and more donations. It takes the Scriptures out of context to manipulate people to give, often beyond their means. It is estimated to be a several billion dollars business that preys on the elderly (mostly women), the poor, the biblically illiterate, and the desperate; all in the name of God. And it is not just a handful of television preachers, it is most of them. One reason is that there is no accountability for televangelists. If you sent money to any of them, you most likely helped that particular preacher to pay for his jet or his mansion.
The lavish lifestyle of these televangelists do not reflect in any way the sacrificial life that Jesus and his disciples lived. But incredibly, some television preachers actually claim that Jesus was rich. And there is a wide audience that believe that, and any thing else that they say. Those people are fooled simply because they do not know the Bible. If they did, no preacher could lie to them because they would immediately realize that those teachings contradict what the Bible says. The Bible repeatedly warns people about all these false teachers; … although not even that is a guarantee, since people can be so easily blinded to the truth. What that people reflect is the state of today’s society and of the Christian religion, and worst of all, it reflects their own hearts. But what I find particularly shocking is how little has mainstream Christianity done to unmask and fight these televangelists.
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