Missouri pastor says congregation is 'poor, broke, busted' for not buying him a luxury Movado watch

[Celerity]

Carlton Funderburke, the senior pastor at Church at the Well, issued an apology video Tuesday for his “inexcusable” remarks in an Aug. 7 sermon.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/missouri-pastor-says-congregation-poor-broke-busted-not-buying-luxury-rcna43557

A Kansas City, Missouri, pastor who said his congregation was "poor, broke busted and disgusted" for not buying him the luxury watch he wanted has issued an apology after his remarks caused a stir on social media. Carlton Funderburke, the senior pastor at Church at the Well, issued an apology video Tuesday for the "inexcusable" remarks he made in an Aug. 7 sermon.

"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."


Church at the Well in Kansas City, Mo.

In a video clip of his sermon posted on TikTok, Funderburke berates his church members for not "honoring" him with a Movado watch. "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."

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Pastor Berates Congregation For Not Buying Him A Watch

[Buns_of_Fire]

1. Lord, won't you buy him / A Mercedes-Benz... nt

[Ilsa]

10. My friends all drive Porches, I must make amends.

He is grotesquely immature.

[krispos42]

2. Usually the grift isn't so obvious.

But yeah, they are selling something they can't prove exists and charging you 10% of your gross income for it.

[stumpysbear]

3. Nothing but a scam artist.

[Effete Snob]

4. Funderburke?

I guess that burke isn't going to pay for itself.

[raccoon]

5. "Ye shall know them by their fruits." Matthew 7:16. Nt

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. You can't fool me; Funderburke?

Chiefs miniseries

Now again free from suspicion, Funderburke continues a decades long spree of sexually motivated murders. Shortly after World War II, violent Army veteran Sonny Butts is appointed to the post of assistant police chief in Delano because he is a war hero. When the serving chief dies of a heart attack, the city council appoints Butts to fill the vacancy. Butts figures out Funderburke's guilt, just as town father Holmes tells Butts he is about to take his badge due to a series of depredations culminating in Butts's murder of a black mechanic. Sure that solving the decades-long mystery will save his job, Butts goes to Funderburke's land and catches him in the very act of burying his latest victim.

[GoCubsGo]

7. Another "Prosperity Gospel" con man.

Oral Roberts and Joel Osteen would be proud==except for the apology part.

[Effete Snob]

13. Waddya mean "con"?

You provided two examples of it working!

[Ray Bruns]

8. I don't know which is worse. The con man berating the

Congregation or the congregation cheering him on.

[Emile]

9. You would think the church members would fire him.

[NCjack]

11. Nice threads. Oops -- I see that he has a watch!

[PCIntern]

12. I treated a pastor and his wife for over 30 years

I never posted about them but they’re both gone now from the mortal coil so I can. He was second generation pastor of a large West Philadelphia church, and he was so moved by the Lord‘s goodness that he took cruises on the luxury decks of the Cunard line, drove fully loaded luxury cars of very recent model years, Owned multiple $3000-$5000 suits purchased from Boyd’s which is the premier Philadelphia men’s shop, and ate ROUTINELY only in the finest restaurants. His phraseology was always peppered with “may the Lord have mercy”, “God bless you”, “Heaven help us” and all that crap, and all I could think of was all his flock donating their hard-earned money so he could live better than almost anyone I’ve ever met. Both he and his wife had dentistry completed in my office which totaled over $50,000 and that was a fair amount of time ago, the early 90s if memory serves me correctly.

The truth is, for all the Lord’s power, he can’t seem to get enough money to these people to satisfy them.

[Emile]

17. The lord works in mysterious ways or

it was Gods will that people give up their hard earned money to a con man. LOL

[Effete Snob]

14. To be fair

I don' t think I've ever heard from a representative of God without being informed that God apparently needs money.

I started to suspect that God has something of a money management problem, so I made a deal a long time ago and I don't give God money any more.

Instead, I loan the money. When God pays me back, then He's eligible for another loan.

Since then, I think God has become a lot more responsible with it.

[leftyladyfrommo]

15. There's a ton of little tiny churches like that in Missouri.

A lot are Pentecostal.

I worked with a Pentecostal minister once. He was one of the meanest people I ever worked with and I did Residential Real Estate so that's really saying something.

[dsc]

16. I will give him one thing

the apology was a real apology but he still is grifting scum.