{"id":125,"date":"2007-07-21T21:49:43","date_gmt":"2007-07-22T01:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/21\/so-this-is-relevance\/"},"modified":"2007-07-21T21:49:43","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T01:49:43","slug":"so-this-is-relevance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/so-this-is-relevance","title":{"rendered":"So this is relevance…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paula White is a televangelist\u00a0first introduced to\u00a0evangelical celebrity by prosperity preacher T. D. Jakes. The St. Petersburg Times<\/a><\/strong> recently ran an expose of sorts of her ministry. She’s married to Randy White with whom she shares the pastorate at\u00a0Without Walls in Tampa, FL.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On a recent Sunday at Without Walls, White preached from John 2, where Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding.<\/p>\n

“Slap somebody right upside their weave and say ‘Get in the Flow,’ ” White told the audience, her voice rising as she introduced her sermon title. “Are you ready? Somebody say ‘Bring it on. Bring it on.’ ”<\/p>\n

Tonya Jones was mesmerized.<\/p>\n

“She speaks to me,” said Jones, 39, a Tampa homemaker. “I like the way she brings the message in a way that I can understand.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And what exactly is the message?<\/p>\n

White also has been dubbed a prosperity preacher, a proponent of the name-it and claim-it gospel, which purports that people can receive financial, emotional and spiritual blessings if they donate. That message and her penchant for designer clothing and flashy cars have added to the cacophony of criticism.<\/p>\n

White drives a Mercedes-Benz and flies around the country in a private jet. She lives in a $2.1-million mansion on Tampa’s Bayshore Boulevard and has a Fifth Avenue condo in Trump Tower in New York City.<\/p>\n

The ministries took in $39.9-million in 2006, according to an audit of Without Walls and Paula White Ministries released in June by an independent Clearwater accounting firm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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