This video was interesting. He seems to not like a lot of these questions and seems a bit threatening. I did not like the overall feel of this interview. This guy does not make me comfortable based on this interview alone and his body language didn't settle this any better. He sounds sneaky. I've never really listened to him or anything or met him so I don't know for sure, but those were my thoughts about that. Bless this interviewer, she is so sweet and calm. She became uncomfortable near the end of that interview, though.
I don't know a lot of these big name pastors personally and only God knows their heart. There are some things that stick out as possibly fishy, though, about some of these big name pastors and a lot of it gears towards the financial most times. Some of them may be right with God and all the money and wealth they have and others may be totally in love with the idea and they only play the God facade.
Either way, people are people and we all make mistakes, we all sin, and the difference is some of us are sorry and repentant and want to change, but others don't want to take moral accountability and they take the batteries out of the smoke detector of their conscience and get to the point they are justifying their sin so they do not have to be accountable for it.
If some of these pastors are taking funds unnecessarily or saying these funds will go to one place and instead are taking them for themselves, this is something that I'm sure God is not fond of. Look at the example of Ananias and Sapphira - God takes theft from His people and His church seriously! There are major consequences!
There were some non-profit ministry owners that I personally knew and they were missionaries. They weren't "big name" people or anything. There were many of churches they were involved with both in and out of the USA and they often sought funding for their "missions." Earlier on, they lived on the mission field and the funding made sense. Later, they withdrew from living in the mission field and lived in the states - they only went back to those locations 1-2 times/year and not even for an overnighter - they would leave and come back the same day, but were still riding on that non-profit mission and still getting a few thousand dollars from churches here and there. They never told them their status of their missions - that they were rarely ever done anymore. They were using the money to pay for their cars, their house, and they would give a lot of it to their "favorite" son who was in college. If they were questioned about it, they were "funding a pastor" and their "room and board." Truth was, he was far from God - partying and drugs were his lifestyle, barely passing in school, losing his honor student status, and bringing other women over to live with him. Terrible! They would receive donations of toys and candy to take to kids back on the mission field, as well as tons of clothes and blankets. I remember they would try to dump it on my husband and I and say, "Oh yeah, find some people who need this stuff. I don't want it sitting around my house." and they would give it away to people to donate themselves or people that made plenty of money and didn't actually "need it." What would people who funded these individuals do if they learned where all their mission money was going? Not sure if they ever found out, but if they did, they would have probably defunded them. My husband called them out on it before, but they were unwilling to change it. If these big name pastors do the things that these "smaller name missionaries" ended up doing then it's a disgrace...an absolute disgrace.
