Prosperity Gospel King pin Frederick K.C. Price, who built LA’s Faith Dome, dies from COVID-19: He one time said that the body of a sick born born again Christian can not be a temple of the Holy Spirit because he can live a house where the windows and doors are not functioning right

 

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How can you glorify God in your body, when it doesn't function right?....What makes you think the Holy Ghost wants to live inside of a body where He can't see out through the windows, and He can't hear out the ears? 

 

The whole point is I'm trying to get you to see-to get you out of this malaise of thinking that Jesus and the disciples were poor and then relating that to you thinking that you, as a child of God, have to follow Jesus. The Bible says that He has left us an example that we should follow His steps. That's the reason why I drive a Rolls Royce. I'm following Jesus' steps.

 

Do you think that the punishment for our sins was to die on the cross? If that was the case the two thieves could have paid the price. No, the punishment was to go to hell itself and to serve time in hell separated from God.

 

But God has to be given permission to work in this earth realm on behalf of man. You are in control! So if man has control, who no longer has it? God. When God gave Adam dominion, that meant God no longer had dominion. So God cannot do anything in this earth unless we let Him. And the way we let Him or give Him permission is through prayer.

 

If satan can keep you in the sense realm, he will destroy you - but if you keep him in the faith realm, you'll put him under your feet.

Frederick K.C. Price, televangelist who built LA’s FaithDome, dies from COVID-19

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A popular though sometimes controversial prosperity gospel pastor, Price built one of the largest church buildings in the country.

February 13, 2021

 

 

By

Bob Smietana

 

(RNS) — The Rev. Frederick K.C. “Fred” Price, a prominent Los Angeles pastor who built one of the largest church buildings in the country, has died at 89.

“Our Husband, Father & your Apostle has gone to be w/ the Lord this evening,”  the Price family said in a statement posted on social media. “We accept his decision to go as he got a glimpse of glory a few weeks ago. We are sad. Please allow us some time to process. He fought the good fight of faith & laid hold of eternal life.”

Price was the longtime pastor of the Crenshaw Christian Center, which he founded in 1973 and grew into a megachurch that claims 28,000 members. The church is perhaps best known for the “FaithDome,” which opened in 1989 and seats 10,145 worshippers, making it the largest house of worship in the country at the time, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The FaithDome was built on a former campus of Pepperdine University on Vermont Avenue and cost $9 million dollars, the L.A. Times reported. Price told the newspaper at the time that he wanted the entire congregation to be able to meet at the same time.

“Multiple services are horrendous,” Price said in 1989. “The purpose of the building is to have one service. And if I can get 10,100 people into one service, that’s more than we’re doing now.”

The Rev. Frederick K.C. “Fred” Price. Photo via Crenshaw Christian Center

Price, a charismatic pastor, taught a message of prosperity, which was featured on his long-running television program, “Ever-Increasing Faith.”

“If you know ANYTHING about the Prosperity Gospel Rev. Fred Price and Crenshaw Christian Center was it before Creflo Dollar and any of those folks made it big,” religion scholar and author Anthea Butler said on Twitter after hearing news of Price’s death. “He was an original.”

Price was the pastor of Washington Community Church, a small Christian and Missionary Alliance church in Los Angeles, when he experienced the “baptism of the Holy Spirit” in 1970, according to the Crenshaw Christian Center website. He later began to study the teachings of televangelist and prosperity gospel preacher Kenneth Hagin.

As he embraced these new teachings, the congregation expanded. Price eventually started a new church with no denominational ties, which grew from about 300 worshippers to a congregation of thousands.

In 2008, Price was named an “apostle,” according to the biography posted on the church’s website. Not long afterward, he retired as pastor of Crenshaw Christian Center, handing the pulpit over to his son, Frederick K. Price Jr.

 

Apostle Price and his wife, Betty, were married for 67 years and were partners in ministry. In 1962, the couple’s eight-year-old son, Frederick K.C. Price III, was walking home from school when a car struck and killed him, an incident recounted on the church’s website.  

“Fred and I tried to console each other as best we could, and leaned a lot on one another during this time of hurt,” Betty Price later wrote. “My husband particularly found it hard to get over this tragedy, but he knew and continued to say, that it was not God who had taken our son from us. Looking back now, we can see how the devil was trying to destroy us as a family.”

Members of the church gave Price a Rolls Royce in the 1980s, which he defended as a sign of his faith. He disagreed with those who said Jesus was poor and said that since the Bible told him to follow Jesus’ example, that is what he intended to do.

In 2005, the city council of Los Angeles voted to name the intersection of Vermont Avenue and 79^th Street after the pastor but refused to pay for a naming ceremony due to his anti-LGBTQ comments.

 During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Crenshaw Christian Center has served as both a testing center and a vaccination site. According to the L.A. Times, both Apostle Price and his wife tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this year, and Price was hospitalized due to the virus.