It looks more like a concert venue than a church.
Services are broadcast to 7 million people per month. Lakewood church is owned by Joel Osteen, a famous televangelist, and can seat 16,800 people. The Gemstone’s church looks similar to the Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. Religion, to me, should be something personal and not a corporation. There are real churches that spend over $90 million every year on their building, trips and paying pastors, and some of these pastors have been caught with drugs and prostitutes but still practice today. But it also terrifies me because of the way it relates to real-life televangelists and megachurch pastors. The Gemstone family makes me laugh harder than I have in any other show. There is another scene that shows the massive amount of money coming in from donations after a Sunday service the whole basement of their church is dedicated to the money. In the first episode, Jesse Gemstone is caught on video with prostitutes while doing cocaine with some of his friends. They all live in mansions and drive the most expensive cars.
The show portrays the behind-the-scenes and inner-workings of the family. The dad, Eli Gemstone, and his son, Jesse Gemstone, are the main pastors for the church. My new favorite show is called “The Righteous Gemstones.” The main family, the Gemstones, are televangelists and own a multi-million dollar church corporation.
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