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(If you want to keep Copeland as one of your heroes, go for it. My OP was a mainstream article that Drudge posted, and I see no reason not to share it. Why not share it? He made a mess of answering the polite reporter's questions. Comparing himself to Abraham is laughable. Yes, Abraham was a wealthy man, but you wouldn't know it. Because the promised land would not be rid of the Canaanites in Abraham's lifetime, this wealthy man lived in tents as a nomad. He didn't let his wealth set him too high to travel coach. The gospel Copeland preaches is off balance...period!


All I can say about his ministering to Africa is that the people are very messed up there from his prosperity gospel. I have a friend who lives in South Africa and she is tired of being inundated with the prosperity gospel and sees it confuse the people. Maybe some truly meet Jesus thru his preaching, I don't know

Does this sit well with you? A computer response "praying for your mother's arthritis". A canned response like that? A menu with all kinds of diseases to pick from? I understand he can't personally read and respond, but like the article says, it sounds pretty cold. I wrote a famous personality once about my stillborn. Dave Wilkerson's ministry. Dave said he and his wife, Gwen, read them all. I cannot completely confirm that, but will tell you that when I wrote, a PERSONAl message, just 2 lines with my baby's name and a comforting message, was mailed back to me. A person, not a machine was really responding to me and I so appreciated that! I will say this one positive thing about Copeland, he hasn't been implicated in having affairs, etc. )

And then there are people like the former ministry employee who told me they lost their faith in Copeland after working inside the mail department, sitting hours on end in front of a computer reading letters from "Partners," processing as many as 500 prayer requests a day. "It's all pre-programmed choices that I had on my computer," the ex-employee told me. "When someone wanted a prayer for their mother's arthritis, I could make the choice – mother and arthritis. And when the letter would go to where it was generated … the computer knew where to put, 'We're praying for your mother's arthritis.'"

Instead, the thousands of pieces of mail that pour into the ministry every week, often accompanied by cash, money orders, stamps, checks, are brought into a vault area in tray upon tray and prayed over for a moment or two ("Thank you for these partners and, please, God, fill their needs") by low-level employees.
"It's a cold sophisticated system," said the former employee. "And it became very impersonal.
Only, the former employee says, that prayer was never uttered by Kenneth Copeland. Not one time. At least not in their presence: "Kenneth Copeland never sees a letter. He doesn't know what these people think of him. People write letters and they write as if he's their best friend. He never sees any of those letters."
Laura, I've read some of your posts and from what I can ascertain, we do have much in common but there is one difference between us. You use hearsay as the final truth whereas I don't like to post or say anything until I have looked at the matter.

I do my due diligence and I have to wonder, if there are two sides to the story, where are the stories from the opposite side of the coin? I believe the things you speak of clearly shows that Kenneth is not of this world other wise the world would love him. Isn't that what Jesus said?

Lastly, I have to confess that the things that God showed Kenneth through the Scriptures, about walking in His ways concerning fiances have worked for me. God's Word is true when mixed with Love and Faith. His promises and benefits in the New Covenant are true and how much it works for you is directly gauged by the measure of faith you use.

If your measure is a thimble, that's what you get back. So we need to develop our measure so that it is bigger and Jesus will use that bigger measure and measure it back to you using the same measure.

The faith giants of our time have developed their measures to the size of dump trucks and it shows. That's why the world attacks them, because the wicked one (the god of this world) sees their faith life as a threat to his Babylonian system that we live in.

That's how walking in faith in the promises of God works.

I know that you are one of my sisters in Him and I really have no desire to argue with you because all of us are at different levels in our growth into the full stature of a full grown adult in Jesus and His anointing.

Just trust in the Scriptures and your Teacher, the Holy Spirit. Don't listen to the voices of doubt from the world, they tend to hinder your growth in Him.

Shalom and Amen...