As the “report cards” come in, it looks like while Creflo may actually receive a passing grade in terms of at least being able to account for the money, Randy White is failing miserably!

Randy White stood before the congregation of Without Walls International Church and fretted about paying the $38,000 power bill, just one of many bills coming due.

Speaking at a Sunday service in late October, the co-founder of the embattled megachurch said he would tally the weekend’s offerings and decide which to pay.

He urged those in the sanctuary to give all they could.

STOP! Back alllllllllll the way up. Are you telling me that in spite of how popular and HUGE that church is, they cannot cough up $38,000? WHERE has all that money gone? Are they so incompetent that they have squandered all that money?

SENATE PROBE, please! Somebody needs to cough up some answers quick and in a hurry!

The most potentially damaging news came last week when U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, challenged the ministry’s nonprofit status and the Whites’ lavish lifestyle. He requested detailed financial information on their expensive homes, cars, private jet and plastic surgeries. They have until Dec. 6 to comply.

You know what? If they cannot come up with $38,000, which should be a drop in the bucket for them, then they actually DO need to lose their nonprofit status because something is horribly wrong here.

In the meantime, congregants are leaving and the offering baskets don’t overflow like they used to.

In the church’s heyday two years ago, those who didn’t come early could expect to watch the 11 a.m. Sunday service from a television monitor in the lobby.

Today, latecomers find ample space in the cavernous sanctuary. At recent Sunday morning and evening services, worshippers barely filled half the seats.

Good! I’m happy that the people had the good sense to cut out of there. They were tricked and bamboozled into believing that they were sitting under a happy couple with an intact marriage, only to discover that the “happy couple” were in fact perpetrating a fraud. Christians are tired of being subjected to smoke and mirrors.

Look at some of the mess that Paula and Randy had gotten themselves into:

In May, the Tribune published several stories about financial and legal troubles at the church, which reported a revenue of nearly $40 million in 2006. Along with facing at least five lawsuits stemming mostly from unpaid bills since 2000, the Whites borrowed $170,000 from an elderly widow in 1995 and did not keep promises to care for her or pay it back. The church also failed to give a home to a single mother who believed she won it in a 2002 church-sponsored contest.

The Whites have since paid back the widow and bought the mother a home.

The congregation weathered the allegations of financial mismanagement with minimal fallout, members said.

But the Whites’ divorce dealt a blow. The split severed the spiritual bond of the pastoral union, Bishop Randy and Pastor Paula.

If Randy and Paula would sell some of their baubles, maybe they would be able to cough up money to pay the church bills:

Randy fashioned himself as the rock-star church CEO. He regularly preaches in jeans and designer shirts, and over the years he has driven a fleet of exotic luxury cars, most recently a Bentley convertible.

Some wonder whether the church can survive without Paula, who has a $3.5 million condominium in New York’s Trump Tower and recently purchased a $681,000 home in San Antonio, Texas.

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