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(EEW Magazine) The negative backlash continues over Creflo Dollar asking for $65 million in donations for a private jet last week.
In a new blog post, Kirk Franklin said, “When a pastor wants people to buy him a private plane while a missionary in Somalia bathes children with sores, that’s a shortage of character.”
Ouch.
While the multi-platinum GRAMMY® award-winning gospel artist, 45, never directly mentions Dollar’s name in his patheos blog, the target of his commentary is obvious.
He is addressing the World Changers International pastor’s solicitation of assistance to purchase a shiny new Gulfstream G650—the largest and most elite plane on the private jet market.
Though Dollar claimed he wanted the most expensive plane in the world to spread the gospel, the public wasn’t buying it—literally or figuratively.
Franklin believes the 53-year-old Atlanta pastor’s ostensible purpose was sharing Christ, but his real aim was luxury living in the name of God.
To drive home this point, Franklin said, “When I camouflage my ‘greeds’ to look like “needs,” that’s a shortage of character.”
Ouch, again.
Dollar asked 200,000 people to commit to giving $300 toward the effort using GoFundMe, a fundraising site.
His dream plane comes with two Rolls-Royce engines, high-speed Internet, two multichannel satellites and helps create an exquisitely comfortable environment for 18 passengers, according to gulfstream.com.
“What’s killing our country, our churches and our children is a lack of character and it cost what it costs,” said Franklin.
In February, the outspoken blogger made it clear that he is completely turned off by prosperity-focused theology, also known as the gospel of health and wealth.
He wrote, “If your theology can’t be preached in a third world country, where a Bentley and a Lear jet probably won’t come to the guy who walked four miles to church for prayer, then your theology is wrong.”
source: EEWMagazine.com
