Why is it so easy for some to criticize leaders of the church? The previous posts that cast shadows of doubt over the motives of the Champions are completely ridiculous. So now a $600 car payment is excessive? The roads are over flowing with ""$40K millionaires"" driving much more expensive vehicles than Pastor Joe's Navigator. Yet, no one gives these over budget commuters a second thought. Its 2008, Cars are obscenely expensive! Maybe a family of FIVE should own a subcompact import?\r
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Lets not preface such comments with the complete story of how Celebration Church came to be what it is today. Lets not discuss how Pastor Joe came from a non-Christian home with an NFL coach as a father and an older brother that serves as high ranking officer in the U.S. military. And that from this collection of ""ALPHA"" males came ""preacher boy"" as his family called him when he decided to go into the ministry. Lets not realize the amount of faith required to uproot your family in Louisiana and move to Texas because the Lord instructed them to do so. Like it or not, Pastor Joe and Lori are public figures and have a certain image to maintain. Would you continue to watch the local nightly news if the newscaster brought you the world's current events in a backwards ball cap and dirty t-shirt?? Would you allow your surgeon to operate on you or your child if saw him arrive at the hospital in an old beat up red pick up truck with one blue door and a rusty tailgate? Of course not.\r
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Unfortunately, what you have witnessed and decided to criticize are in one word... BLESSINGS.\r
Deuteronomy 28:1 If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.
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