The pastor of a mega church in South Carolina, United States, John Gray, has provided reasons he spent $200,000 buying a Lamborghini luxury car as gift for his wife.
Gray gave the car as a gift to his wife on their eighth wedding anniversary.
A video went viral on social media Saturday showing Pastor Gray handing his wife the keys to the bow-wrapped “Lamborghini Urus.”
Gray later rebuked critics who raised suggestions about whether he bought the car with church money.
“God helped me to make my wife’s dream come true,” Gray said in an Instagram post.
“Why not? She’s made mine come true!”
Also taken to Facebook, he added, “not a nickel, not a penny of money from the church went to the gift.”
“First of all, it wasn’t a pastor that bought the car. It was a husband that bought the car,” Gray said in the Facebook live video.
“I’m a husband first. Don’t confuse what I do with who I am. What I do is I pastor God’s people.
“Who I am is a husband and a father and I’ll do anything to honour them. And I won’t ask permission from anybody to do it.
“My wife has pushed for my dreams and my vision, and she has toiled with a man who is still trying to find himself,” Gray continued.
“That carries a weight. I wanted to honor her for how she’s covered me.
“What should concern people who are actually genuinely concerned is ‘did this man use any money from the church to do this?’ And the answer is no, absolutely not.”
Pastor Gray’s wife also jumped to her husband’s defense on Instagram, saying, “I don’t see anyone screaming about how basketball players drive what they do while you paying $$$ to see them play in arenas and on fields.
“We don’t live for people! We live for God!”
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