This fall's hottest reality show may not be one with any housewives or contestants voting each other off an island but, instead, with a cast you'd least expect to see on reality TV, preachers.
"Preachers of L.A." on the Oxygen network follows six men-of-the-cloth both behind the pulpit and behind the scenes of their lives and their churches.
The show, scheduled for a fall 2013 debut, follows the son of an evangelist who was shunned by his church after a divorce; a pastor whose church is "full of celebrities"; a bishop whose weekly broadcast reaches 250 million homes worldwide; a pastor whose greatest obstacle comes from "within his own family"; a bishop who was a gang member and drug addict before turning to God; and a pastor who was a pioneer of competitive skateboarding, all as described on the show's own website.
"It's all about the truth for me from this point on," says one of the cast members, Deitrick Haddon. "[The] truth about my baby out of wedlock, the truth about my divorce. It happened. There's nothing I can do about that."
The show focuses not just on the religious lives of the six men - Haddon, Bishop Noel Jones, Bishop Clarence McClendon, Pastor Wayne Cheney, Bishop Ron Gibson and Pastor Jay Haizlip - but also on their flashy lifestyles and extravagant wealth.
"The Bible says I wish above all things that you would prosper," McClendon says in one episode. "I believe that."
"P. Diddy and Jay-Z… They're not the only ones who should be driving Ferraris and living in large houses," Gibson says in another episode.
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This is disturbing.. May these false prophets repent and may God unharden these preachers heart and give them salvation.
ReplyDeleteI learned to humble myself before God when I teach his scriptures.. This is the opposite, in turn fosters a climate for earthly gains of material possessions, fancying yourself as a "God" instead of spreading God's lessons to the world with humility. 1 of the 7 deadly sins, PRIDE.
ReplyDeleteYou do deserve reward for your work in the church, just don't make it so obvious because you may be viewed as a false profit.. I mean phrophet. You may as well be wearing a Bouffant symbol on your robe preaching from the pulpit because your teachings do not line up with your lifestyle.
I would have more respect for these represenatives of the cloth if they preached the word of God from a Taxi.
It reflects over the top self pride in the name of? Sodom and Gamora? It's certainly not in the name of doing God's work..
Donate those extra dollars to starving children in America or in your neighborhood instead of self indulgement of material posessions. These ministers.. lower case m purposefull, are preaching for profit and you can't convince me otherwise.
It's sinful to exploit the Church and the Bible for self gain. These ministers do have a gift of translation God's word to the masses, but if I saw my Minister driving down the street in a new Ferrari indulging in earthly riches gained through his parishioners, I would find another church. My opinion.
The Devil does wear Prada.