If there has been a more blatant example of Matthew 19:24 being played out in modern times than the Furtick family, I’ve not seen it. Jesus’s words were clear, “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”

It’s one thing to cover your expenses, and there’s nothing wrong with earning a living in ministry. But this isn’t ministry, it’s charlatanry, and when you’re bilking your followers for millions of dollars by preaching a false, ear-tickling gospel, one must ask who are what you really serve: God or Mammon?

But if you’ve been wondering where all that money he’s bilking from his followers is going, just look at his style. Heard of the Instagram page, Preachers n’ Sneakers? Well, this is Preachers n’ Sweaters—2,000-dollar sweaters, to be exact.

During his Easter sermon, our friends at Protestia pointed out that Furtick essentially preached himself into the resurrection narrative, “where His grave represents YOUR depression and failure, and Galilee represents a better life YOU want to live.” We call that narcigesis—narcisistic eisegesis.

And he does this while wearing a $1,950 Neiman Marcus sweater.