Singer Kirk Franklin performs onstage at the 43rd NAACP Image Awards held at The Shrine Auditorium on February 17, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images North America)
When we hear about Forbes lists, citing the richest and highest paid among us, typically Christian artists, pastors, and leaders of the faith community are absent from such lists.
Measuring Christians' cash flow isn't exactly a regular hot topic. But EUR Web reports that Kirk Franklin is gospel's "richest" man with a net worth of $8.5 million.
Franklin, arguably the genre's most recognizable name and face, has been in the music business since the 90s. His catalog of hits, tour de force performances in venues across the nation, high-profile television appearances, and work with other greats within the industry, have kept the pint-size ball of energy very active in ministry all these years later.
Though Franklin's estimated net worth released by richest.com will become water cooler chat for many, Christians know money isn't the focal point of our existence.
1 Timothy 6:10 (NIV) warns, "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs."
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SOURCE: EEW Magazine
Alesha Davis
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