John Gray

You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

Daily Mail:

A pastor who bought a Lamborghini for his wife’s anniversary present is said to be living lavishly in a $1.8million home which was bought by the mega-church he works for.

Pastor John Gray, who leads the Relentless Church in Greenville, South Carolina, is said to live in a 7,247 square foot home in Simpsonville, South Carolina, that was purchased by the church, according to the Greenville News.

The home, which supposedly serves as a church parsonage, is said to be about 10 miles away from the mega-church and is located in a gated subdivision.

The median home value in Greenville County, where Gray’s abode is located, is said to be $165,600.

When asked about the decision to buy the $1.8million home for Gray’s use, Relentless’ chief financial officer, Travis Hayes, told the the Greenville News that it ‘is not anything new.

‘This is a practice that is done with every denomination in the nation. That’s what this is. This is an asset that belongs to the church,’ Hayes said.

Should Gray opt to part ways with the church, it’s expected that Gray will leave the home behind.

What about the Lamborghini though?

Hayes told the newspaper that the church board had decided to buy the home as incentive for someone of Gray’s ‘caliber’ to move to Greenville to lead the church.

Bribery.

What kind of spiritual guide needs such an expensive “incentive” to do his thing?

Gray, who is also an associate pastor at televangelist Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, was roundly criticized on social media after video of him presenting Aventer with the keys to the luxury vehicle during their eighth anniversary vow renewal was posted online.

John Gray and his wife Aventer

In response, Gray took to various social media platforms himself to defend his decision to purchase the pricey car.

‘Pastor buys his wife, you know, this expensive car,’ Gray said in an impassioned Instagram video now taken down. ‘First of all, it wasn’t a pastor that bought the car. It was a husband that bought the car. Get that in your spirit.’

‘I want to make it clear, not a nickel, not a penny, from this church, Relentless Church, went towards the gift that I made my wife,’ Gray said in a Facebook Live video.

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Instead, Gray said the money for the car came from his show, ‘The Book of John Gray,’ on the Oprah Winfrey Network, revenue from a book deal and a great deal of scrimping and saving over months.

He said that he put down the deposit for the car in February and hasn’t paid off the whole car yet.

The idea of niggers in any religion is preposterous. “Spiritual niggers” are a myth. They’re the lowest vibrational humanoids on Earth — at least of the ones we know of — they have no brain capacity for connecting to the divine, which produces stories like this.

This nigger is a pretender. If the money for the car didn’t come from the Church, and you believe his story, would you trust someone who “scrimps and saves over months” to buy a luxury car to guide you spiritually?

Would you trust a creature so addicted to gibs to guide your soul?

Aventer also weighed in on the car controversy on social media.

‘MY HUBBY IS A HARD-WORKER, HE WORKED HIS WHOLE LIFE AND HE SAVED TO BLESS HIS WIFE!’ she wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post.

I don’t see anyone screaming about how basketball players drive what they do while you paying $$ to see them play in arenas and on fields. We don’t live for people! We live for God!‘

Pretty accurate portrayal of the relationship between niggers and religion.

They are addicted to the material, possessed by daemons, and forever marked.

This is what happens when you cast pearls before dogs and swine and allow brute beasts to join the Church.

Telegraph:

A vicar operated a fake marriage “conveyor belt” allowing nearly 500 illegal immigrants to stay in Britain, a court has heard.

Reverend Nathan Ntege, 55, is accused of conducting 494 fake marriages – an average of one every other day – at St Jude’s with St Aidan’s Church in Thornton Heath south London, between December 2007 and March 2011.

When the reverend took over the church, the number of weddings went from six a year in 2005 to six a day, prosecutor Edward Lucas told Inner London Crown Court.

Witnesses described brides queuing round the block. They changed into their wedding dresses in the garden or in the toilets and shared dresses with other women. Some women married, took of their wedding dresses in a back room and left without any ceremony, There were no guests.

Some wedding photographs showed a bride wearing a wedding dress that was far too small, so tight she was unable to do it up properly at the back, meaning her black bra was showing.

Mr Lucas said: “There were an inordinate number of marriages presided over by Ntege. In the period we are concerned with 494 sham marriages took place.”

“A church warden has said it went from six marriages a year to six marriages a day. In 2005 there were six marriages at the church, in 2010 there were 223.

“This involved EEA (European Economic Area) members marrying EEA non-members who had no right to stay in the UK or whose leave was about to expire. They married Bulgarian nationals who were sourced by fixers.

“This number of sham bogus marriages does not take place by coincidence, the persons wishing to take part in marriages could go there no questions asked.

“Ntege was integral to the process, without him no marriages could take place in the church. It was clear he had accomplices in this.

“He was part of this enterprise to conduct false marriages in the full knowledge he had betrayed the trust of law-abiding parishioners and the church which had placed trust in him.

“He also profited from the marriages. Between 31 Jan 2007 and 31 May 2011 he should have paid £72,498 to the Diocese of Southwark, instead he paid £3,000, so defrauding the diocese of £69,498. In that period he sent £50,000 to Uganda.”

Mr Lucas said: “The weddings were farcical. Ntege and his team ran a marriage conveyor belt.”

He added: “Brian Miller’s presence at the weddings lent them respectability, he knew full well the weddings were entirely bogus.

“The marriages were technically correct but morally bankrupt, he knew the marriages were weddings of convenience.

An Indianapolis pastor was sentenced Tuesday to 40 years for two counts of child molestation.

During a sentencing hearing, Otis Jetter, 70, was given 30 years for one count of A felony child molestation and 10 years for one count of B felony child molestation.

Jetter was the pastor of The Pilgrim Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Indianapolis.

Police say a 29-year-old man admitted that Jetter molested him when he was 12. He came forward with the information after he saw Jetter with another boy at church and worried the boy might be in the same situation.

The victim admitted that he was given money in exchange for his secrecy.

Jetter turned himself in on Dec. 17, 2012. He denied the allegations to police.

A convicted sex offender believed to be posing as a preacher was arrested Thursday by the United States Marshals Northern Nevada Fugitive Task Force.

An official with the US Marshals says James Edward Bryant, 68, was arrested December 26, 2013, on an outstanding October 11, 2012 California Parolee at Large warrant.

Reno U.S. Marshals were contacted with information Bryant might be in the area. With leads from the public, officials say they were able to locate Bryant.

According to the official, members of the public told investigators Bryant was known in the community as a preacher.

Bryant’s underlying offense is a conviction for sex offenses against a minor under the age of 14, according to the official.

The official says Bryant has a significant criminal history and was considered dangerous.

Bryant was arrested at 541 West 3rd Street #52 by Deputy United States Marshals and the Regional Sex Offender Notification Unit.

Bryant was booked into the Washoe County Jail for failing to register as a sex offender in Nevada and for possession of a dangerous weapon, which was a taser, according to the official.

Following the disposition of local charges, officials say Bryant will face extradition to California for his outstanding arrest warrant. The United States Marshals Service is conducting a follow-up investigation to assess whether Bryant violated federal law as the result of the Adam Walsh Protection and Safety Act of 2006.