Christian Web News - Georgia pastor and televangelist, Creflo Dollar, is being sued by a California businessman who claims Dollar stole an idea for a pay service providing inspirational text messages.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Los Angeles by Devone Lawson of Marina del Rey, accuses Dollar, son Jeremy Dollar, and other ministry staff of breach of nondisclosure agreement, fraud, unjust enrichment, civil conspiracy, breach of contract, and misappropriation of trade secrets.
Lawson is seeking in excess of $10 million in lost revenues, according to his attorney James Evangelista.
47-year-old Creflo Dollar founded the World Changers Church International in Fulton County in the late 1980s and now has a branch in New York. He is a proponent of the Prosperity Gospel, which teaches that faith and obeying God’s Word brings material rewards.
Lawson claims he worked with Dollar's World Changers Church International ministry from 2004 to 2005 on a subscription service that would send daily inspirational text messages to subscibers’ cell phones.
In the lawsuit, Lawson claims the ministry violated a nondisclosure agreement when it eventually formed another company and launched a similar "Word On the Go" text messaging service in 2006. He says Dollar is making $50 million in revenue a year from the $4.99 monthly subscriptions.
"Apparently, the Rev. Dollar and the Dollar Ministries do not practice what they preach, unless the prosperity gospel they preach justifies fraud and theft in the attainment of material wealth," said Evangelista.
A spokeswoman for Dollar did not immediately comment on the lawsuit.
Christian Web News - Jesus has a way of getting right to the point, doesn't He? There was certainly no mincing of words, He came right out and said, "why are you fearful?" and then went on to say, "O you of little faith." You don't have to read between the lines to see what He was saying, they had little faith.
Christian Web News - Galatians 3:13-14. Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree''), that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
