A pastor in Kansas City, Missouri rained down a fiery sermon earlier this month scolding the laity for failing to follow God.
The reverend Carlton Funderburke had said in a sermon he preached on August 7 that his congregation is poor and broke because they have failed to buy him a luxury watch.
According to him, he had asked for the said watch since last year, but instead the members don’t consider him worthy of their Macdonald money.
“This is how I know you’re still poor, broke, busted and disgusted, because of how you been honoring me. I’m not worth your McDonald’s money? I’m not worth your Red Lobster money? I ain’t worth your St. John Knits — y’all can’t afford nohow. I ain’t worth y’all Louis Vuitton? I ain’t worth your Prada? I’m not worth your Gucci?” he said in the nearly minutelong clip.
At one point, Funderburke tells the congregation that a Movado watch can be bought at Sam’s Club.
“And y’all know I asked for one last year. Here it is all the way in August and I still ain’t got it,” he said. “Y’all ain’t said nothing. Let me kick down the door and talk to my cheap sons and daughters.”
However, after his sermon was greeted with scorn and insults, Funderburke whose church is located at the Well, has since Thursday recanted and apologised for his words.
“Though there is context behind the content of the clip, no context will suffice to explain the hurt and anguish caused by my words. I’ve spoken to those I am accountable to and have received their correction and instruction,” he said. “I have also privately apologized to our church, who has extended their love and support to me.”
Funderburke is a prosperity gospel preacher and like many who preach this gospel, they believe God is obliged to give those who truly honour him every material blessings they desire, something which directly opposes what Christ taught in scripture.
