What’s up with all the nepotism in “Charismaniac” churches?
Everywhere we turn, in almost everything we read, it seems like nepotism is an unavoidable fact of life within your typical charismatic church or ministry. If you look at well-known ministries, you’d be hard-pressed to find one where the staff is NOT made up of the celebrity pastor/evangelist’s family members. Benny Hinn, for instance, has his wife on the payroll. His brothers also work for his organization, and according to one report I read, they and other family members comprise most of his board of directors. Joyce Meyer has her entire family on her ministry’s payroll, to the point where her ministry funds a lavish compound made up of several mansions where she, her husband, and her children and their spouses live. Paul and Jan Crouch, of pink-wigged TBN fame, have one son on their staff and have used millions of ministry dollars to fund their other son’s movie-making business. And those are just a few celebrity examples. We could spend weeks listing the multitudes of smaller, less
