Kenneth Copeland Under Fire for Celebrating Bentley Seed Offering from Dying Man
- Milton Quintanilla Crosswalk Headlines Contributor
- Updated Aug 19, 2024
Televangelist Kenneth Copeland recently shared a story of how a dying man gave a Bentley with a Breitling clock as a seed offering in exchange for divine healing from illness yet passed away. Last Monday at the Kenneth Copeland Ministries’ annual Southwest Believers’ Convention in Fort Worth, Texas, held from July 29 to Aug. 3, Copeland shared several stories of his passion for Breitling watches, of which he owns about 36 coveted timepieces.
In a message titled “How to Walk by Faith and Not By Sight” two Mondays ago, Kenneth showed off his diamond-encrusted Breitling on his left wrist to a man seated in the front row.
“Do you think that one’s pretty?” Copeland asked one man. “It’s a Breitling. It has diamonds around the edge. Someone gave me that one.”
Per The Christian Post, Copeland explained he would gift Breitling watches as seed gifts, adding that he and Pat Robertson, the late founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network and host of “The 700 Club,” had a “tradition” of gifting Breitlings to each other.
He also mentioned that his friend, Grammy and Dove Award-winning artist Mylon LeFevre, gave him a Bentley with a Breitling clock as he was “believing in God for healing” for his own illness. The watch would become Copeland’s 37th in the collection.
“Whoa! A Bentley with a … um … Thank you, Jesus!” Copeland said.
In 2022, Bentley offered a $230,000 Breitling clock in its Bentayga model. At the time, the website HotCars reported that the addition of the diamond and gold clock “nearly doubles the starting price for a new Bentayga.”
Justin Peters, a Bible scholar who has spoken out against the World of Faith movement and the New Apostolic Reformation, issued a response to Copeland’s message.
“Kenneth Copeland knows full well that the people listening to him don’t follow him for exposition; they are there for promises of health and wealth,” Peters said. “And there are a lot of sick people listening to him. Not just at this convention but all over the world. And they are sick; they are dying, some of them. And some have sick children, children who are dying.
“The bigger miracle you need, the bigger monetary seed you’d better sow,” Peters added, warning Copeland to fear God’s judgment and repent.
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of Heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in Heaven,” Peters said, reading from Matthew 7:21-23. “On that day, many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’”
Although Peters says he doesn’t hate Copeland, he was filled with “righteousness indignation” because of the “audacity” the televangelist shared the story about Lefevre, who died last year despite his seed offering for healing.
“Kenneth Copeland is a wicked, dark man. He hates you, and the only person he hates more than you is God,” Peters declared. “Enjoy that Bentley, Mr. Copeland. … May God have mercy.”
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