The church is supposed to be the bride of Christ and the hope for mankind, but has it become nothing more than a business.

Welcome to the Roy's Report, a podcast dedicated to reporting the truth and restoring the church.

I'm Julie Roy's. And joining me today is Nathan Appfeld, a filmmaker who's working

on a docu-series called The Religion Business. And in the process, he's confronting megachurches

and mega-pastors demanded to know their salaries and their housing allowances. And he's not taking

no for an answer. Last month, he got arrested when he showed up at Ed Young's

megachurch in grapevine, Texas, carrying signs asking for transparency about Young's finances.

Prior to that, he had a run-in with the security team of televangelist Kenneth Copeland.

Why do megachurches have security teams that protect them from honest questions? And why do so few

congregations know what their pastors make? And why do filmmakers get arrested when they demand transparency?

Buckle up because this is going to be a wild interview with someone who may be a big cowboy when it

comes to his tactics. But he's revealing some really alarming practices

within the church, and he says he's out to change those. We'll get to my interview with Nathan

Appfel in just a minute, but first, I'd like to thank the sponsors of this podcast, the Restore

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