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John Gray’s Wife Tells Critics ‘Everybody Needs to Shut the Hell Up!’

Relentless Church’s Aventer Gray, wife of Pastor John Gray, has released an hour-long video on Instagram calling out ‘judgmental Christian critics’ who keep weighing in on her public and private affairs.

For reference, John Gray is a former associate pastor at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church. Rife with decrepit theology and an unregenerate heart, he left there and took over the church in 2018, moving into a $1.8 million mansion “parsonage” paid for by the church. This is quite prescient, as ironically, the only thing he has been “relentless” about is cheating on his wife, wearing expensive clothing, and making the news for one scandal after another.

Lamenting that “you reach a point where you have to say something” Aventer goes on to say that “Everybody needs to shut the hell up!” and “keep your mouth off people, sip your own tea, and stop being thirsty for the details and info regarding the pain of others.”

“Get your mouth off of people! You don’t know what they’ve been through. You don’t know what they’re going through. And while you’re talking about other people, you probably just got finished doing something that you shouldn’t be doing.”

While the couple’s relationship was once viewed in high esteem and thought to be a marriage worth emulating, being prominently featured in their canceled TV show, The Book of John Gray, multiple adulterous affairs on the part of the shameless pastor have made them fodder for gossip and pity.

Aventer is currently recording season 2 of her podcast ‘Ave Unfiltered’ which features frank conversation between her and her husband on how much he cheated, and what sort of trauma he insists has contributed to his latest scandal.

h/t EEW Magazine

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Pastor John Gray Recovering After being Hospitalized with Life Threatening Pulmonary Embolism

Pastor John Gray of Relentless Church in Atlanta seems to be recovering after being hospitalized with a life-threatening saddle pulmonary embolism (SPE), according to wife Aventer who posted on Instagram.

A pulmonary embolism is when there is a blockage in one of the arteries of the lungs, According to Healthline, A saddle PE is when a large blood clot gets stuck in the main pulmonary artery. This is rare a and makes up between 2-5% of all PE cases. It’s usually treated by blood thinners, clot-dissolving medications, or using a catheter to remove the clot. She writes

Hello family. My family and I stand in need of a miracle. Please keep my husband @realjohngray in your prayers.

After feeling a little different over the past couple weeks, he went to the ER on Thursday evening and was immediately admitted to CCU with A saddle Pulmonary Embolism in the pulmonary artery and more lung blood clots. The Saddle PE is in a position that could potentially end his life if it shifts at all. The clot burden is severe and only God is holding it in place. He is currently in CCU and based on CT & Echo we will need two types of surgery due to the pressure now on the heart within the next 24 hours. To place this in perspective, the doctor said that people have come into the hospital dead with this exact scenario he walked in with.

The Doctor said God has to keep him through the night and he can not move, not even get up to walk to a bathroom.

Ok, COOL! Thanks ma’am! God isn’t done! I don’t care what CT, ECHO, All or any of the tests show! It’s clear God isn’t finished. Clots have to bow to my God! That’s all!

In a subsequent update, Aventer posted on that her husband’s leg clot is gone and did some sort of name it-and-claim-it incantation on the remaining lung clots, telling them to “dissipate & bow at the name of Jesus” and that will not travel up towards his heart, which would be catastrophic, but rather “all will stay in place place because they have to obey the voice of the Lord.” She also added ‘WE HAD A SMALL GOD ORDAINED DIVINE DELAY, BUT GOD IS GOOD” and we have no idea what that means.

For reference Gray is a former associate pastor at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church. Rife with bad theology and an unregenerate heart, he left there and took over the church in 2018, moving into a $1.8 million mansion “parsonage” paid for by the church. This is quite prescient, as ironically the only thing he has been “relentless” about is cheating on his wife while staying employed and wearing expensive clothing, making the news frequently for one scandal after another.

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Pastor Sues Church over $6.25M Retirement Package He Alleges Was Promised – UPDATE!

Editor’s Note: This is an older story, but was not covered by us at the time it happened, and is worth writing about for posterity in a simplified version so we can use it as a reference. This is the saga from start to finish.

“Pastor” Ron Carpenter has resolved his legal dispute with his former church after years of public infighting with “Pastor” John Gray, the result of a successful arbitration that sees him returning to the state to plant a new church.

Carpenter was the pastor of Redemption Church in South Carolina for decades until he decided to move to California to take over as the lead pastor of a new church – the 14,000-member Jubilee Christian Center, which was to be rebranded as Redemption Church version 2.0.

As a part of this transition, he handed the reigns of his megachurch to John Gray, who rebranded it as “Relentless Church.” Gray is a former associate pastor at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church. He left there and took over the church in 2018, moving into a $1.8 million mansion “parsonage” paid for by the church. This is quite prescient, as ironically the only thing he has been “relentless” about is cheating on his wife while staying employed and wearing expensive clothing, making the news frequently for one scandal after another.

In taking over the church, the Grays agreed to take over all debts, which included nearly 9 million dollars on the church sanctuary and 4 million on the Imagine Center gym, with the church building carrying a monthly mortgage of nearly $70k dollars.

After some time, Carpenter was dissatisfied with how things were going both in his new church on the west coast as well as back home. He alleged that Gray was being “shady” and “dishonest” by missing mortgage payments and not paying his bills. As a result he initiated a suit to evict him from the property. Gray contests this, saying he was not being shady and has paid everything, including $500,000 in upgrades to the sanctuary.

One of the conditions for Gray taking over the church was that it had to be rebranded so that Carpenter could take his “Redemption Church” brand with him. Although this was done, Carpenter says that he was also promised a retirement package from the church he was leaving, which totaled $6.25 million dollars. If the transition was successful, he was to have received annual payouts of $250,000 for 25 years, along with being gifted a retirement property in an affluent neighborhood. This was not being done and he filed suit in order to be paid. [Editor’s Note: Have you ever heard of that happening? Being paid millions to hand over a church?]

As a result, they publicly bickered back and forth, as well as brought suit after suit against each other. [Gee, that’s not a violation of Christian ethics at all. See 1 Cor. 6:1… -Ed.]

In October of 2020, the two men finished the legal disputes between them and pledged to end the public feuding after undergoing a successful mediation process, settling their differences once and for all and bringing an end to the disturbing and shameful saga.

Carpenter moved back to South Carolina to establish a new church, one branded “Redemption Church” that is filled with ex-members of the now “Relentless Church,” which was dissolved in the botched transition. He had over 1000 people attend the first service and claims at this point he is interested in mending fences and putting everything behind them.

Gray for his part is happy that it is over, announcing plans to expand the “Relentless Church” brand with a couple of nearby church plants and has indicated that he wishes for reconciliation as well.

[Editor’s note: This is not a church, and these are not Christians. These men need to hear and respond to the real gospel of Jesus Christ, in which Christ died in the place of sinners according to the Scriptures to pay for our sins, and rose again to show that not only were they paid for, but that He had broken sin’s power in our lives. Until that happens, you have a nice, big, fat, comfy goat herd.]

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$1090 Sweater? $1990 Handbag? $2720 Coat? Round-Up of Preachers N Sneakers

You want to know which men of the cloth are spending an arm and a leg on their clothing? We have the deets, compliments of Preachers n Sneakers, who have more of where this came from.

We have TD Jakes with a $1990 Louis Vuitton handbag.

Mike Todd with a $2720 coat. It’s currently half price at the moment, but who knows if he bought it on sale. A few months ago he spent $65,000 on only 168 pairs of sneakers for disadvantaged youth, so it’s likely he paid full price.

Steven Furtick with a $965 of shoes. This is unsurprising, as previously he’s been seen wearing the following:

  • 4-Bar Solid RWB Stripe Shirt $450
  • Farfetch Offwhite Diagonal Arrows Sweatshirt $500
  • Kingsnake Print GG Supreme Baseball hat $390
  • Offwhite distressed bleach denim Jacket $750
  • Saint Laurent men’s brown Boots $1,145
  • Jordan 6 Retro Shoes $300
  • Air Presto Off White White Shoes $637
  • Nike Air Fear of God 1 Triple Black Shoes $610
  • Nike Dunk Low Off-White Pine Green Shoes $510
  • Nike Air Fear Of God 1 Oatmeal Shoes $390$
  • Saint Laurent mens SL10H lace up leather high Top Sneakers $575

Hillsong’s Brian Houston getting his $695 Gucci shoes.

John Gray, the is-he-or-isn’t-he the pastor of Relentless Church on account of his philandering ways, wearing his $1090 ripped hoodie.

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Preacher Criticizes ‘Satan’s Shoes’ as ‘An Affront to Believers’ While Wearing Pair of $5611 Yeezys

A preacher has come out swinging against ‘Satan’s Shoes” – the red pair of Nike shoes made in collaboration with Gay Rapper Lil Nas X and MSCHF that is alleged to contain a drop of human blood – describing them as a “direct affront to believers,” but he may not be one to talk.

The pastor in question, John Gray, released an Instagram video where he explained:

They’re selling shoes with human blood in them. And they’re selling for a particular amount which coincides with a Scripture reference to Jesus saying ‘I saw Satan fall like lightning’ – a direct affront to believers, disrespect and dishonor to people of faith during resurrection week…

I defy the devil who’s trying to snatch a generation, and the silence of the church because of fear is not okay with me! I’m not okay with it…Nobody fears the church. They don’t respect us as a people.

Speaking of affronts to believers, Gray is a former associate pastor at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church. He left there and joined Relentless Church in South Carolina in 2018, moving into a $1.8 million mansion “parsonage” paid for by said church. This is quite prescient, as ironically the only thing he has been “relentless” about is cheating on his wife while staying employed and wearing expensive clothing. That may have something to do with why “they don’t respect us.”

While Gray complains about a set of shoes being “an affront to believers,” a typical Sunday morning outfit from Gray may cost as much as years worth of rent for some of his congregation members, with Gray being a shining superstar on Preacherssneakers.

There is the $1145 sweater, the other $770 sweater, the $4005 shoes, the $9625 parka, the other $3721 pair of shoes, and then finally these bad boys

“Satan’s Shoes” may be blasphemous and offensive, but a bit of introspection about other acts of deviltry might go a long way.

[Editor’s note: Sadly, this is no April Fool’s joke.]

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Megachurch Pastor may set Record for Quickest Restoration After Admitting to even More Adultery

(Christian Post) Megachurch pastor John Gray announced that he has “submitted to a process of restoration” that will sometimes take him away from his church in the wake of new allegations of infidelity, some of which he admits are true. The embattled leader of Relentless Church in Greenville, South Carolina, said in an address to his church and family Sunday:

I’m sorry for the areas of my life that I left unattended, that I was apathetic about, the areas where I have treated the calling of God, the grace of God and the hand of God casually in my life. For every area of behavior that has dishonored the holiness of God, I want to tell you that I’m sorry. There have been a number of things, blogs, some of them accurate, some of it not. But all of it, my responsibility,

I apologize for putting the name of God in harm’s way and I and I alone take the responsibility for the actions that harmed and injured God’s sheep. No matter how many pseudo-excuses one can hurl in a moment like this, for the purposes of self-preservation, all of them ring hollow when all that is truly needed is the truth.

Gray’s address comes after his lawyers said a week ago that he was being blackmailed and extorted after he was accused of engaging in another inappropriate relationship. 

The latest allegation against Gray came from a 48-year-old Houston woman who identified herself as “Mary” during an interview with online personality Tasha K, which was broadcast on YouTube. The Houston woman said during her interactions with Gray, she sent him partially nude photos at his request and he video-chatted with her while revealing his underwear. She claimed that he also met with her in Houston and invited her to visit his home and she declined because she felt he may have wanted to sleep with her.

Gray did not specifically address any of the allegations against him but explained that he had been in therapy for himself as well as in marriage therapy with his wife for a while but those efforts were insufficient in helping him to become the pastor, father and husband he aspires to be.

He said after being confronted by godly friends and leaders, he will now submit to a process that he has never endured before for an indefinite period.

“[I] submitted to a process of restoration that will require me to continue to do the deep work, not only of therapy but of emotional health professionals; physical restoration because my body and my soul have been deeply wounded and impacted by a life that was rooted in shame. I don’t know how long that process is going to be.”

He said he has the help of pastors who will help him get “whole” and urged members of his church to continue giving to his ministry as he seeks the help he “deserves” in the broken areas of his life.

He argued that one of the reasons he didn’t seek radical help before now was because he incorrectly assumed that his church could not survive financially without him always at the helm.

I never submitted to anybody in those other areas, whether through shame fear or an inflated sense of worth. Well, the church needs me to keep preaching so that everybody can be able to take care of their families. If God needed someone who was stuck in sin to help Him then I ain’t read the Bible.

God’s Church is His business and it is my prayer that a mature Relentless Church will continue to sow into this great work while I continue to seek the help, the health, the healing and wholeness that I deserve. My kids deserve a whole father, not a fragmented puzzle piece of a man. sSome weeks you’ll see me. Others you won’t.

In the latest allegations against Gray, online personality Tasha K also recently shared a video on Instagram highlighting the Greenville preacher complaining to Mary that his wife, Aventer Gray, did not cook for his family and offered to fly her to Cabo, Mexico, for a rendezvous during the pandemic.

In early 2019, Gray publicly revealed he had wanted to end his life and received prayer from Bishop T.D. Jakes as allegations of infidelity clouded his marriage. Weeks before that, Gray had drawn flak for gifting his wife a more than $200,000 Lamborghini Urus to celebrate their eighth wedding anniversary.

The South Carolina pastor had previously told his congregation that his wife, Aventer, discovered that he had started “listening to the wrong voices…

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Editor’s note. This article was written by Leonardo Blaire and posted at the Christian Post. Title changed by Pulpit & Pen. A bit of formatting also changed for clarity, with a word or two being removed here or there.