Sunday, January 3, 2010

Ricky Warren raised 2.4 million in 48 hours


Last week, Ricky begged his sheep to send him $900,000 bucks to get the church out of debt.

Well, those fuggers came through and raised over 2 mill-mill in 48 hours.

Warren sent out an "urgent" plea Wednesday for the nation's sixth largest church to come up with more than $900,000 in 48 hours to meet a budget shortfall and allow the Saddleback Church to carry on service programs from Southern California to Africa.

To no one's surprise, the congregation came through big time, even as Warren took a clubbing in the national media for the "sky-is-falling" tone of his missive and his surprise that it made news. A spokesman for the church later said Warren also made clear that the ministry "never asks -- or expects -- outsiders to give."

Saturday night, in the first round of weekend services, Warren announced more than $2.4 million rolled in through online offerings and envelopes delivered to the church's Lake Forest campus, south of Los Angeles.

But the financial tally was not, by Warren's sermon, "The Miracle" -- the title of his sermon. No, he said, the miracle is the "radical generosity" shown this week.

That's interesting and scary at the same time. Take note LGBTers, these are the kind of folks we are fighting. They are highly organized, devoted and head-on. We can learn a lot from them.

Maybe even take notes. They know how to win, we need that same format.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

sure they are saying god be praised

Sozo's Blog.com said...

It's not about praising God, there are many Gay Christians out there, and may who don't believe the Bible condemns homosexuals.

The scare thing is that he earned 2.4 million with a scaretactic "something bad with happen, but I can't tell you what" and that he doesn't release any financial documents. What happened to transparency?

Unknown said...

Why is the church in debt in the first place.

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