Sickening...these Mega Churches are economic tax havens.
This sure wasn't Christ's message. These mega "churches" are almost like an Amway franchise...focusing on the Greed principle.
The Strib always takes the position that there is no condemnation more richly deserved than someone elses's religion.
They have recently been bought out by a buccaneer business organization. We will see what those who will be fired have to say about praying for success.
This dude is fleecing the flock. The Lord will deal with him.
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A man after Satan's own heart.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!(Ignore my thread-bare suit, please. Can't have the preacher looking bad now, here is another dollar!)
My, oh my, where to begin.....better not, it would get me banned.
Luke 9:58 And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
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Church of the Divine Profit.
"He said he buys expensive clothes because "if I look decent, I preach better, so I'm really doing it for you, amen.""
No...."I'm really doing it TO you, Amen" Screwing you in the name of the Lord!
This is what we Christians will be measured against whenever it is convenient to the Godless left....
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Looks like Jesus didn't tell his disciples that propsperity was going to be thiers.
I don’t know this preacher or the exact context of his problems with the IRS, nor the context that his statement was made in... so I am not going to pass judgment on him... but one thing is for sure any man teaching or preaching the Gospel that Jesus and the apostles taught would never expound or teach on principles, any principles from the Bible or any other source that would lead a man, woman or child to believe that prosperity is the result of something that God owes them or plans to give them simply because they slap down a few ideas in their head and heart and follow “the principles that lead to prosperity”...
The same scriptures these “prosperity preachers” use also contain these verses:
“1Sa 2:7 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
Pro 22:2 The rich and poor meet together: the LORD [is] the maker of them all.”
I think we can learn something from properly managing what we have and making best use of it and developing it to the best of our abilities... whether it be our God given talents and skills, our resources, our career and education or our skills as entrepreneurs, business people and leaders... and enhance the quality of our lives and truly prosper... but if God ever gave or gives a person principles by which to get rich... then I think they would be best to know and learn that He gave them to them personally for their own lives and not as a formula or a “Gospel of wealth” to be shared with the world...
I think from looking at a few more scriptures (quoted below) from the same Bible that these prosperity teaches use as their rule of life and practice will show that it is in fact not the Gospel that Jesus or the Apostles taught.
“Tts 1:11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
1Ti 6:3 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, [even] the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
1Ti 6:4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
1Ti 6:5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
1Ti 6:6 But godliness with contentment is great gain.
1Ti 6:7 For we brought nothing into [this] world, [and it is] certain we can carry nothing out.
1Ti 6:8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.
1Ti 6:9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and [into] many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.”