re this post here:
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/feb2012/gerlinda218-2.htm
Clay Cantrell
(21 Feb 2012)
"Gerlinda's
Joyce Meyer's post"
I hope that the writer would rephrase her
comments on Joyce Meyer should she do this
over again. Remember, a Christian should
strive to express themselves in a manner
that they feel comfortable being repeated
back to them from the Throne on the Day of
Judgment of the Church.
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/feb2012/clay221.htm
Clay, I've
read all the letters regarding my post
on Joyce Meyer and take them to
heart, especially your words above
(of which I copied this portion).
I will apologize for my lack of tact and
for posting my personal opinion. I
have a tendancy to be blunt and to the
point. Perhaps you do not
know that her yearly income is over
90 million with no Out-Reach other than
family, close friends and any that
benefit her ministry. This bothers
me as it does others including this
pastor in below account. Please
read some of the evidence I've included
with their sources.
gerlinda.
Meyer's ministry
withdraws program from Channel 24 By
BILL SMITH
Post-Dispatch
01/02/2004 Joyce Meyer's
“Life in the Word” TV show will no longer
be aired on the Rev. Larry Rice's KNLC
(Channel 24).
Rice said he had told
Meyer two weeks ago that he was canceling
her Sunday evening program and was
considering canceling her weekday show
when the ministry notified him Friday that
it was pulling off the station.
Rice said his actions
were prompted by Meyer's lavish lifestyle
and what he saw as teachings that often
went “beyond Scripture.”
Rice said he had become
increasingly worried about what he views
as the “excessive lifestyle” of Meyer and
her family.
He said Friday that the
ministry's $2.5 million home in south St.
Louis County where Meyer lives, and the
$100,000 Mercedes-Benz owned by her
husband, Dave, “crosses the line.”
“She wasn't always like
this,” he said of Meyer. “She's really
drifted.”
Good for him to stand up
for the truth even though he would lose
money. We need more people with integrity
like this.
*After 9 years of giving,
man has no Chrysler, no wife, no wealth By
Carolyn Tuft Post-Dispatch 11/17/2003
Bob Schneller gave to
Joyce Meyer until it hurt. Nine years
later, he says, it still aches.
He's out of money, out of
a marriage and out of faith with
televangelists.
Schneller, 59, lives
alone in a 600-square-foot, early-model
mobile home in House Springs. He's
surrounded by videotapes of
televangelists. He says he studies the
tapes to learn how he was taken in by
Meyer.
Not so long ago,
Schneller spent his days hanging on
Meyer's every word. The money he gave her
- $4,400 a year - surpassed his annual
mortgage payment. He and his wife lived on
$30,000 a year.
“She teaches you that if
you give a seed offering, it will come
back tenfold or a hundredfold,” Schneller
said. “I know it sounds ridiculous, but
you get caught up in it. You believe it as
truth.” “Her teachings were practical,”
Schneller said. “I'd never heard anyone
preach that way before.”
He goes on to say Most of
what Meyer taught, Schneller said, is what
he calls the “name-it-and-claim-it”
theology: If you have enough faith, you
can name what you want.
“So I laid across the
hood of a brand new 1985 Chrysler Fifth
Avenue,” Schneller said. “I never did get
it. She would say that I didn't have
enough faith, or that there was sin in my
life blocking the blessing. It always goes
back to you.”
The Schnellers began
giving more to Meyer: $350 a month. They
went to Meyer's home Bible sessions.
By the early 1990s,
Meyer's popularity started to climb.
But Schneller was less
fortunate. His back went out, and he
lacked money to pay his bills. He went to
Meyer and told her what was happening. She
laid her hands on him, he said, and told
him that he would be healed, that his
problems would soon go away.
“One day, I went out to
my mailbox, and there inside were six $100
bills wrapped up,” Schneller said. “Right
after that, she had me give testimony, and
she used it to prove that you can be
blessed.”
Despite the $600, nothing
changed, he said. He went on workers'
compensation and underwent neck surgery.
Meyer called him to wish him well, he
said. She began giving seed money to a
ministry that Schneller and his wife had
started, Sword of Spirit of Truth.
Then, in the spring of
1994, a new technique was percolating
among charismatics like Meyer. It was
called “holy laughter,” a ritual in which
the congregation sings songs repetitively.
The preacher steps onstage and begins
laughing. Immediately, the room breaks
into laughter. People slide out of their
chairs and onto the floor, “drunk on the
Holy Spirit.”
But Schneller felt
uncomfortable with it.
The Schnellers went to a
church in Waterloo. There, Schneller spoke
out against holy laughter. A few days
later, Schneller said, his wife was called
into Meyer's office.
Meyer told her, Schneller
said, that because of their position on
holy laughter, “I can no longer support
you.”
They parted ways.
Since then, Schneller's
marriage has fallen apart. He works as a
security guard and attends a “regular
church, where the Bible is taught
verse by verse.”
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In today’s tv church and
in other churches……verse by verse Bible
study is quite unusual! Oh…..if
we just had more of this type teaching!
These are only a few
stories that need to be paid attention to
when you listen to Joyce Meyer or any of
those that teach the false prosperity
promises.
http://www.theanswerischrist.com/id35.html
Some people do ask questions about what
they hear and we have every right to examine
ones teachings that are spoken publicly to see
if they are right or wrong. The apostle Paul
commended the Berean's for questioning what he
spoke to them
buying a house for the homeless would cause
the present owner to become homeless.