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In Class with Carr

S E6: Rwanda is Cracking Down on Pastors? Should Pastors Like John Gray Get That Treatment?

In Class with Carr

Knarrative

Africana Studies, Society & Culture, Education, History, Karen Hunter, Empowerment, Greg Carr

4.9972 Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Karen Hunter discusses gives her view on the church shutdown in Rwanda and holding pastors to a standard. Is this right? And should pastors and churches everywhere have a standard for operation? Do you need a formal education to lead a church? And is church a place or the people?

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0:00.0

This is Karen Hunter and want to talk religion. You know over the next 12 months I'm going to be using

0:17.1

this space to kind of go in on what's happening in the God space in people's lives.

0:24.0

Quite recently there was this whole story that went viral about John Gray giving his wife

0:29.6

Avantir a Lamborghini Jeep and people were losing their minds and I really didn't have too much of a problem with the Jeep giving I had a problem with the public display

0:40.4

Which I thought I mean again this is an opinion I'm not judging but I am a little bit the public

0:47.2

display of wealth not just wealth it was like he was doing something on Instagram to show the world how much he loves his wife,

0:56.0

but to me love is always an action word and it's also love is relationship, is personal.

1:05.6

So I have a relationship with God.

1:08.7

Talk to God every day.

1:09.8

I don't wear a cross.

1:11.1

I don't necessarily walk around talking about, you know, I'm blessed and highly

1:14.3

favored, I don't wear my Christianity as a badge of honor because I'm working every day to

1:20.4

improve my relationship with God, which also forces and compels me to improve my own inner

1:27.2

self, meaning, you know, I have to examine my behavior, the things that I say and think,

1:31.5

and hold them under the, you know, the light to see if I'm doing the right things for myself to be the best human being I can be that's relationship

1:38.0

So for me watching John Gray give his wife a jeep while it's nice that's something between y'all too why are we

1:43.8

involved in that why do we have to watch this why are we witnessing it who cares and as long

1:48.6

as he's not using the church's money which I didn't believe that he was because I

1:51.7

know a lot of people were coming after

1:53.4

him for you know why are y'all tithing into a church when he's using that money to

1:57.6

buy extravagant things I know that he's written a book it did really well he had a TV show on own, he got a check for that.

2:05.2

He could afford to buy Aventor A Jeep, $200,000 Jeep without the use of any church funds. But it raised a larger question because

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