Post by anointedteacher on Dec 7, 2007 18:38:05 GMT -5
Pastor’s Wife Says Church Is a Divorce Asset
Posted by: Marenda Taylor on Thursday, December 6th, 2007
People often turn to their church pastor for marital advice and counseling…but where do you go if the pastor is in the midst of a messy divorce?
When we look at the lives of church leaders we are reminded that they are imperfect people just like us. Clearly the church is not exempt from Divorce. Just when we thought it couldn’t get an uglier than what’s happening with Evangelist Juanita Bynum and husband Bishop Thomas W. Weeks III…news breaks of a pastor’s wife wanting a church counted as a divorce asset!
What is the world coming to?
According to the estranged Pastor’s wife she put up money to start the church and deserves a share in the church… her attorney says that the church is no different than any other business.
This is mind boggling but at the same time not surprising. Churches across the country are operating as businesses and are often started as investments (or cash cows).
The wife argues that her husband of 31 years used his Brooklyn church as a “personal piggy bank,” setting his own income, spending the congregation’s tithes as he pleased and running a catering business from the building.
Its really unfortunate that churches are used in such a manner… it’s really nothing new though it was happening 2000 years ago too.
Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those who sold doves, and said unto them, “It is written, `My house shall be called the house of prayer,’ but ye have made it a den of thieves.” —Matthew 21:12-13
Posted by: Marenda Taylor on Thursday, December 6th, 2007
People often turn to their church pastor for marital advice and counseling…but where do you go if the pastor is in the midst of a messy divorce?
When we look at the lives of church leaders we are reminded that they are imperfect people just like us. Clearly the church is not exempt from Divorce. Just when we thought it couldn’t get an uglier than what’s happening with Evangelist Juanita Bynum and husband Bishop Thomas W. Weeks III…news breaks of a pastor’s wife wanting a church counted as a divorce asset!
What is the world coming to?
According to the estranged Pastor’s wife she put up money to start the church and deserves a share in the church… her attorney says that the church is no different than any other business.
This is mind boggling but at the same time not surprising. Churches across the country are operating as businesses and are often started as investments (or cash cows).
The wife argues that her husband of 31 years used his Brooklyn church as a “personal piggy bank,” setting his own income, spending the congregation’s tithes as he pleased and running a catering business from the building.
Its really unfortunate that churches are used in such a manner… it’s really nothing new though it was happening 2000 years ago too.
Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of those who sold doves, and said unto them, “It is written, `My house shall be called the house of prayer,’ but ye have made it a den of thieves.” —Matthew 21:12-13
