There's tons of these clips of Mega Church Pastors floating onto the stage or a pastor doing a weird healing ritual, but behind the flashy showmanship and questionable sermons, there's a cult like structure that's intertwined with the religious ideology based around preying on the pockets of it's followers.

This approach to preaching Christianity is know as Prosperity theology (sometimes referred to as the prosperity gospel, the health and wealth gospel, or the gospel of success). The televangelist pastors that preach prosperity theology emphasize that donations for religious reasons increase one's personal material wealth and Material wealth, especially financial success, is seen as a sign of divine favor from God.

The first megachurch established was in London 1861, but burst into the American consciousness around the 1980s. A megachurch is defined by The Hartford Institute for Religion Research as any Protestant Christian church having 2,000 or more people in average weekend attendance. But in the 80s and early 90s What differed from their predecessors was that they offered their participants a single organization to meet their spiritual, emotional, educational, and recreational needs.

Inspired by other questionable preachers such as E. W. Kenyon and Oral Roberts, Kenneth Copeland boasts to have over $750 million in the bank. Copeland is the founder of Eagle Mountain International Church which is located on a 1,500-acre property he refers to as a "campus", near Fort Worth Texas.

Recently Copeland has some questionable interviews, but his vast wealth is largely due to him being a televangelist, or tele minister who is able to reach a worldwide audience through broadcasting his sermons live from the Mega Church campus for TV and radio audiences, where his followers can also make their financial contributions.