And He Could Hire a Room for Supper!

In an interview in the October 2006 issue of Atlanta magazine, pastor Creflo Dollar of World Changers Church International, expresses his amazement that people still think that Jesus was poor:

It’s not only Christians, it’s people who aren’t Christians; they are still uncomfortable with being wealthy or walking in a certain amount of wealth. I think, for the Christian, there is this idea that poverty is closer to God. We have the idea, “Well, Jesus was poor, and all Christian people need to be poor like Jesus.” I am so shocked by the number of people who think that. But Jesus absolutely wasn’t a poor man. You go through the Scriptures and you see that, at the age of 2, there were kings that came to him and they delivered unto him gold, frankincense and myrrh. Then you look at the fact that Jesus had a treasurer [Judas Iscariot]. Even though the treasurer was crooked and stole from Jesus, there had to be some money to steal. Jesus had a treasurer to keep up with something. You also look at the fact that when Jesus was crucified, they cast lots to see who could take his clothes. Well, if they were a bunch of rags I don’t think anybody would be casting lots for them. And then you see his disciples following him and he turned around and asked them, “What do you guys want?” and they asked him the question, “Where dwelleth Thou?” and he said, “Come and see.” So he had a house.