Now for the one a lot of really old men have crushes on. When I looked her up on Wikipedia to get an idea of her life for this post, The drop down thing said she was an author, not a pastor. If Wikipedia is smart enough to figure that out right off the drop of a hat, how is it that so many other people fall for these scams.
Meyer was born Pauline Joyce Hutchison in South St. Louis, on June 4, 1943.[1] Her father went into the army to fight in World War II soon after she was born. She has said in interviews that he began sexually abusing her upon his return, and discusses this experience in her meetings.[2]
A graduate of O’Fallon Technical High School in St. Louis, she married a part-time car salesman shortly after her senior year of high school. The marriage lasted five years. She maintains that her husband frequently cheated on her and persuaded her to steal payroll checks from her employer. They used the money to go on a vacation to California. She states that she returned the money years later.[2] After her divorce, Meyer frequented local bars before meeting Dave Meyer, an engineering draftsman. They were married on January 7, 1967.
Seems like a pretty standard life for someone who doesn’t even know Jesus yet, let alone would not be trying to use Him to manipulate people…yet.
I didn’t have any knowledge. I didn’t go to church. And I had a lot of problems, and I needed somebody to kind of help me along. And I think sometimes even people who want to serve God, if they have got so many problems that they don’t think right and they don’t act right and they don’t behave right, they almost need somebody to take them by the hand and help lead them through the early years. -Joyce on Wikipedia
Meyer was briefly a member of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in St. Louis, a congregation of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod.[2][4] She began leading an early-morning Bible class at a local cafeteria and became active in Life Christian Center, a charismatic church in Fenton. Within a few years, Meyer was the church’s associate pastor. The church became one of the leading charismatic churches in the area, largely because of her popularity as a Bible teacher.[2] She also began airing a daily 15-minute radio broadcast on a St. Louis radio station.
In 1985, Meyer resigned as associate pastor and founded her own ministry, initially called “Life in the Word.” She began airing her radio show on six other stations from Chicago to Kansas City.
How do you go to a Lutheran Church and end up like what we will see later?
“She founded HER OWN ministry.” Not God’s.
- She’s all about trying to make people happy and conformable all the time. This is not in the Bible.
- She has a private jet. Why is that so popular?
She wants you to help her. She makes it tricky. She wants you to be generous…to her.
- She’s out to get your money. “Preachers aren’t JUST out to get your money.”
- Joyce Meyer Ministries. Her name on it.
- Several homes. Mansions. How do you defend that as a Christian?
- She wants you to lavish on her.
- Being more transparent is good, but there were more things that need to be fixed.
Her book deals make people like her a lot. Her Women’s conferences are super popular.
She carefully makes people like Chris Tomlin and Phil Wickham confused. Maybe they know exactly what they’re doing. Maybe they’ll just play anywhere. A gig is a gig sort of deal. These would be the highest paying gigs they could get too. Have to be really careful.
Same with the others, hopefully God will work on her and turn her around.