Thousands will congregate in the Spokane Arena Saturday for the evangelical wealth building conference Life Surge, an all-day star-studded event that many describe as spiritually and fiscally fulfilling – but that also faces mounting accusations of leveraging faith and a megachurch atmosphere to lull attendees to buy $38,000 classes while even encouraging them to go into debt to do so.

Life Surge declined an interview, requested written questions and did not respond to them.

Saturday’s event will be replete with celebrity evangelical speakers, most of whom have been traveling with Life Surge throughout the year or longer, such as former quarterback Tim Tebow, the Benham brothers – whose star rose in prominence after HGTV canceled their upcoming reality TV show “Flip it Forward” over stat

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