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Billionaire Bishop Edir Macedo sells luxury condo in Porsche Design Tower for $13M

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Bishop Edir Macedo Bezerra, the billionaire founder of the neo-Pentecostal Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, who Brazilian authorities once accused of using church funds to enrich himself, has sold his luxury condo unit in the Porsche Design Tower in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, for $13 million.

The sale, which was made on Sept. 10, was reported by the real estate firm Redfin.

Macedo’s condo, which was previously sold brand new in 2016 for $9.65 million, is described by Redfin as “the height of coastal luxury.”

It’s a “one-of-a-kind duplex penthouse” boasting 6,121 square feet of space and the Dezervator — a private car elevator that goes directly to the condo’s four-car sky garage. The condo, which has four large bedrooms, high ceilings and floor-to-ceiling glass windows, also has a private balcony pool with ocean views.

Macedo and his family are proponents of the prosperity gospel, which teaches that "believers have a right to the blessings of health and wealth and that they can obtain these blessings through positive confessions of faith and the 'sowing of seeds' through the faithful payments of tithes and offerings."

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I wonder if this Church is affiliated with the prosperity movement? Many Pentecostal Churches have a loose communion with each other, from what I understand.
 
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Yup. Never found it appealing. Unless someone prefers $$$$$$$.
IT's beyond that for me. I'm not necessary a big "see the devil in the world" kinda guy but I FULLY believe the Prosperity gospel is THE most insidious threat to Jesus and his teachings.
Not because it's "so antithetical" to christian teachings but because it's soooooo close but when it breaks away, it does so in an insidious and soul destroying way; legitimizing greed.
 
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IT's beyond that for me. I'm not necessary a big "see the devil in the world" kinda guy but I FULLY believe the Prosperity gospel is THE most insidious threat to Jesus and his teachings.
Not because it's "so antithetical" to christian teachings but because it's soooooo close but when it breaks away, it does so in an insidious and soul destroying way; legitimizing greed.
Agreed. It’s at the very odds of the gospel and the saying of Jesus.
 
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I wonder if this Church is affiliated with the prosperity movement? Many Pentecostal Churches have a loose communion with each other, from what I understand.

Problem is anyone can call themselves pentecostals, there is no organized institution.
Here this people have a bad name among pentecostals, they are known, for selling items, for you to get blessings, and asking for money etc.
Pentecostal, is just believing in the bible, gifts, and being filled with the Holy spirit, deliverance also.
 
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Problem is anyone can call themselves pentecostals, there is no organized institution.
Here this people have a bad name among pentecostals, they are known, for selling items, for you to get blessings, and asking for money etc.
Pentecostal, is just believing in the bible, gifts, and being filled with the Holy spirit, deliverance also.
I meant the denomination as a whole. There’s Assemblies of God, Church of God in Christ, Church of God, Apostolic etc among many others. I don’t know if they form an inter communion or not.
 
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I meant the denomination as a whole. There’s Assemblies of God, Church of God in Christ, Church of God, Apostolic etc among many others. I don’t know if they form an inter communion or not.

I don't know about other places, but in here different 'pentecostal organizations' share some events, and people move from church to other church.
 
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