{"id":16741,"date":"2026-04-10T09:32:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=16741"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:38:24","slug":"mega-church-pastors-love-money-comedy-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/mega-church-pastors-love-money-comedy-short\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega Church Pastors Love Money &#8211; Comedy Short"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a pretty hilarious skit, as most churches are business hustles. Personally, any church that lets their voice be silenced for tax exempt status is a problem. And Druski seems to really be targeting TD Jakes (tied to Diddy parties and Tyler Perry) as TD Jakes preached the Holy Spirit was the semen, sperm of God a while back. And this skit was mentioned as false teacher Joel Osteen went on Logan Paul&#8217;s podcast and responded to this video, article on Osteen below, rumored to be worth $100 million, claiming to not take a salary or own a fleet of cars or a jet, with language being very specific. Consequently, a lot of churches have love offerings and such for pastors, so I&#8217;m sure some of the $90 million coming in ends up with Osteen as he only mentions salary (production money to his company maybe?). The big point to notice in the article below, is how little of the money that comes in goes to charity (2017), and they have him on the $10 million dollar property he lives in. Worth noting, Osteen has a book <em>Your Best Life Now<\/em>, which is only valid if you&#8217;re going to hell&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mega Church Pastors LOVE Money #shorts\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/58hfPPHCRIU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:25%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/db.ministrywatch.com\/ministry.php?ein=746066273\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"954\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-16.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-16.png 954w, https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-16-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-16-768x565.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 954px) 100vw, 954px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ub-divider ub_divider ub-divider-orientation-horizontal\" id=\"ub_divider_6cdf0654-9484-4ab2-969f-8880096cad67\"><div class=\"ub_divider_wrapper\" style=\"position: relative; margin-bottom: 2px; width: 100%; height: 2px; \" data-divider-alignment=\"center\"><div class=\"ub_divider_line\" style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 2px; \"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Rich Is Joel Osteen? Pastor Claims He Never Took Salary From Church, Denies Owning &#8216;Yachts And Jets&#8217;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Behind Joel Osteen&#8217;s easy smile lies a running argument over where faith ends and fortune begins.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>By Athaliah Mejares<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d.ibtimes.co.uk\/en\/full\/1801280\/joel-osteen.png?w=736&amp;f=996b4b3839f9a794393ffc2081ce2c90\" alt=\"Joel Osteen\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">joelosteen\/Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Joel Osteen has insisted he has &#8216;never taken a salary from the church&#8217; despite estimates putting his net worth at around $100 million, telling a podcast hosted by YouTuber Logan Paul this week that his wealth comes from book deals and media work rather than the pulpit at Lakewood Church in Houston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 60-year-old televangelist has long been one of the most recognisable faces of what critics call the &#8216;prosperity gospel&#8217; in the United States, preaching that faith and positive thinking can lead to material success. His broadcasts from Lakewood, a former sports arena that now seats roughly 17,000 worshippers, go out to millions, and his rise has been shadowed by persistent questions about where the money comes from and where it goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest scrutiny was triggered by Osteen&#8217;s appearance on Paul&#8217;s <em>Impaulsive<\/em> podcast, released on Wednesday, 8 April. In a clip circulating on X, co-host Mike Majlak presses Joel Osteen on rumours of &#8216;Bentleys, yachts, jets&#8217; supposedly attached to his name, while Paul jokingly fishes for a ride in a Bentley himself. It is the sort of needle Osteen has heard for years, but this time he chose to swat it away quite bluntly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;You know what? People like to make up stuff,&#8217; Osteen replies, saying social media posts have falsely shown him with Ferraris and fleets of luxury cars. &#8221;Joel&#8217;s got a yacht and jets and stuff&#8217;&#8230; I have no yachts, I have no jets, I have no cars.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The line leaves the hosts audibly puzzled, and Majlak quickly shifts to the obvious follow\u2011up: if not cars and jets, then where does the money from a mega\u2011church go, and how exactly is Joel Osteen paying for his evidently comfortable life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Joel Osteen Net Worth: Pastor Says Books, Not Tithes, Pay The Bills<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Pressed on his income, Joel Osteen tells the podcast he does not draw a salary as senior pastor of Lakewood Church. He says that has been the case for &#8216;most of the time&#8217; over his 26 years in the role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t take a salary from the church,&#8217; he says. &#8216;I&#8217;ve been blessed with book sales and media and other things, so I don&#8217;t have to take a salary. So I can work here for basically no salary, and I have been for most of the time&#8230; People like to think it&#8217;s all about money and things like that \u2013 the ones that try to discredit you \u2013 but no, never taken a salary.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The phrasing is open to interpretation. He suggests he has worked unpaid &#8216;for most of the time,&#8217; then concludes with &#8216;never taken a salary.&#8217; Without Lakewood&#8217;s full payroll history, it is impossible to independently verify that claim, and Osteen does not supply documentation on air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is less contested is the scale of his personal fortune as reported in entertainment and wealth-tracking outlets. <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.celebritynetworth.com\/richest-celebrities\/joel-osteen-net-worth\/\" target=\"_blank\">Celebrity Net Worth<\/a><\/em> estimates Joel Osteen&#8217;s net worth at about $100 million. It also suggests his combined streams of income, such as book sales, radio programmes, speaking fees, and church collections, generate more than $90 million a year. Those figures are not sourced to audited accounts, and they should not be read as official. They do, however, capture the broad perception that Osteen operates at a financial level far beyond most clergy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Osteen&#8217;s lifestyle appears to match that perception. He and his family live in a 17,000\u2011square\u2011foot mansion in a Houston suburb, reportedly purchased for $10.5 million in 2010. The previous family home, also in the area, remains in their portfolio and is now valued at around $3 million. Whether those properties were bought outright from book advances, royalties, or other revenue is not broken down, but they have become shorthand for critics of his brand of ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lakewood Church, Joel Osteen And The Prosperity Gospel Economy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Joel Osteen&#8217;s platform rests squarely on Lakewood Church, which he inherited from his father, John Osteen, a Southern Baptist pastor who founded the congregation. The present\u2011day church occupies a 600,000\u2011square\u2011foot complex that once served as a sports stadium, and its weekly services were being broadcast live to more than 100 countries by 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After his father&#8217;s death from a heart attack in 1999, Joel Osteen took over as pastor within a fortnight. Before that, he had worked mainly behind the scenes, producing John Osteen&#8217;s television sermons for 17 years and later creating the church&#8217;s own TV programme. That shift from production booth to pulpit coincided with an era when religious broadcasting, cable television, and then digital streaming turned charismatic pastors into global brands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The money flowing through Lakewood is substantial. According to financial figures published by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/investigations\/article\/Joel-Osteen-and-the-making-of-Lakewood-Church-12954518.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Houston Chronicle<\/em><\/a> in 2017, the church reported income of $89 million that year alone. Of that, just over $1.2 million was said to have been spent on charitable causes, a fraction described as &#8216;1\/3%&#8217; in the report. On the face of it, that ratio raises questions about priorities for an institution that relies heavily on donations, though there is no breakdown of how the rest of the budget was allocated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lakewood has not issued a public response to Osteen&#8217;s recent podcast remarks or to the latest round of online criticism. Nor is there a fresh statement addressing the church&#8217;s finances beyond the 2017 snapshot. In the absence of detailed, independently audited accounts in the public domain, much of the debate around Joel Osteen&#8217;s net worth and his relationship to Lakewood&#8217;s income remains fuelled by estimates, partial disclosures and Osteen&#8217;s own carefully phrased assurances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is, however, not operating alone. Joel Osteen has been married to Victoria Osteen, now co\u2011pastor at Lakewood, since 1987. The couple has two children and presents themselves as a family ministry, tightly bound up with the institution they lead and the global media operation that surrounds it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a pretty hilarious skit, as most churches are business hustles. Personally, any church that lets their voice be silenced for tax exempt status is a problem. And Druski seems to really be targeting TD Jakes (tied to Diddy parties and Tyler Perry) as TD Jakes preached the Holy Spirit was the semen, sperm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16741"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16745,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16741\/revisions\/16745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}