Rick Warren Needs To Be Investigated.

[Greg Helmsley]

I probably said this a couple of times so I don't mean to be annoying, and I hope this is not duplicated. This needs to be answered. But did anyone catch Rick Warren's Christmas "Special" on Fox News? Basically a honest to God (no pun) church service. I find it odd and quite disturbing to notice that the entire program had commercial breaks where Fox pluged American Idol, a car commercial, Sprint, et al. Wouldn't that mean the church Rick Warren represents is in violation IRS tax exempt status? I believe it is, I just wanna get your opinions and/or call for an investigation on this matter. I feel there is a profit being made because of the advertising that was aired on the show.

[leftchick]

1. interesting to know

when I called my Mother on Xmas she mentioned watching her hero the good Reverend on TV. I should have known it was Fox.

[Greg Helmsley]

2. Ask your mother if it had comercials on it.

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[LA lady]

3. All Sunday services here have commercials.

I am no big fan of Warren but he is said to tithe 90% of his salary

[A HERETIC I AM]

4. Tithe it to what?

If he's smart, he tithe's it to a charitable remainder trust and draws a salary from it. Tax free. Or maybe he just tithes it to his own church. Same thing, anyway.

[Greg Helmsley]

5. I have never seen a church service

that had mainstream comercials. Usually, they hock items as part of their programing asking for donations. But this one is showing mainsteam advertising to deam profit. If that is the case, some dire trouble may be in store for Warren.

[LA lady]

8. Car dealers, grocery stores, local restaurants

We have at least 9 local churches on TV every Sunday morning. All their ads are the type you would see on any show. Less national ads is the only thing.

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[Tanuki]

7. Warren has become an outspoken advocate of solutions to

global poverty and AIDS. He was criticized in some circles when he recently invited Barak Obama to join him in Africa. I don't know a lot about him, but he seems like one who is really trying to "walk the walk." I am frankly curious why you are singling him out in a negative way, when he seems like one who deserves more credit than a lot of his colleagues.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_14_122/ai_n14839666

"I deeply believe that if we as evangelicals remain silent and do not speak up in defense of the poor, we lose our credibility and our right to witness about God's love for the world," Warren wrote in his appeal for participants in the campaign. As a top evangelical leader, Warren lends powerful weight to the cause of ending global poverty. Following its publication in 2002, The Purpose-Driven Life went on to become the best-selling book for 2003 and 2004 and the all-time best-selling nonfiction hardback, with sales of more than 22 million copies.
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Warren and his wife, Kay, have set up three foundations through which to distribute 90 percent of the proceeds from the book into global ministry, including assistance to individuals in Third World countries who are battling AIDS.

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In April, during Saddleback's 25th anniversary celebration, he announced that he would lead thousands of churches around the woad in eradicating five "giant problems" that oppress billions of people: global poverty; diseases, such as AIDS, that affect billions of people; illiteracy among half the world's population; spiritual emptiness among billions of people who don't know their purpose in life; and self-centered leadership.

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[yellowcanine]

9. I think you are on the wrong track here. For pofit companies sponsor all kinds of non-profit

programming, including National Public Radio. It is the program being sponsored that has to be nonprofit, not the sponsors. If we get rid of commercial sponsorship, nearly all of the symphony orchestras around the country would have to close their doors.

[Greg Helmsley]

10. I think that is contributor spots (program made possible by a grant...)

I am talking about full blown tv comercials.