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Originally Posted by Drake
consider WHY this ministry gives away its publications for free. Once that is understood then you will have a different objection and argument but at least it will be based on facts.
Drake
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You can't say there's no money in being a modern prophet, a self-styled 'oracle of God'. First off, you can charge a fee, for folks to come listen to you speak. These "training fees" then can be used to repay the interest-free loans you got from them to support the kiddo's business. See the phone conversation transcript between W Lee and S Benoit. There, Lee says that just one of his 'local churches' loaned him $100K. We have no idea how much in total all the various assembies ponied up for Junior's business, Daystar. But Lee admitted that one church = $100K. That's serious cash flow, folks... early-'70s money, when 100 large could buy you something. (and we have no idea how many 'localities' got their $$ back and how many "considered it a donation" [after it had initially been pitched to them as an investment]).
Then, after the talk series or "conference" is over, you can edit and print the message series, collate them, bind them into a book, and sell them back to the audience. Later, you can again sell the the same folks re-packaged material as "HWFMR" and "Collected Works". Yes we know Works are dead ...e.g., "Dead Works" ...but they can be collected and sold, anyway.