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1 | HI EdB | Bible general Archive 1 | EdB | 57323 | ||
Mbooker I'm sorry I think your being left in the dark. In the Word of Faith movement a main teaching is God HAS to reward your faith. If you want something you have to claimed it by faith then God HAS to honor that faith and give it to you. Much like a genie that you freed from the bottle. There is no consideration for God's sovereignty or that if you are given everything you want you quickly become spoiled. They also teach if you give God has to repay as much as a 100 fold. Forgetting the scripture God’s owes no man and the other scripture that says God does he pleases. The idea is you give to their ministry and God will then give back to you 100 fold. That presents a problem where is this money going to come from? Very simply they take the scripture out of context that says God is going to take from the unrighteous and give to the righteous. Now that they have the “where is coming from ” problem solved they can now press the issue of your sowing and reaping. Amazingly the aren’t depending on God doing the unrighteous to righteous swap. No, they have their money from the listener that is sowing into their ministry so he will get back 100 fold. Many of these so call humble servants of the Lord are receiving 7 digit incomes while the people that are sending in the money are living on 20,000 or less. Many of these humble servants actually brag about how much they make and how much they can raise during an offering. I truly believe this to be stench in the nostrils of the Lord. Your right a pastor is to receive his support from the offering, no one is denying that. His income should represent a rough average of the income of the church give or take a little. A workman is worthy his hire and any man or woman that faithfully fulfills the call of God upon his or her life should be cared for by the people that they care for. As Paul said “I feed you spiritually should you not feed me physically?” That is not the problem, the problem is manipulating people to give by promising them God has to give it back 100 fold. God doesn’t have to do a thing. EdB |
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2 | HI EdB | Bible general Archive 1 | CDBJ | 57338 | ||
Well put, it blows my mind how some people think that the can bribe the God of the entire universe by giving a measly portion of their puny income. Then there are some of the great TV preachers that tell people that they can’t out give God; what ever happen to grace? | ||||||