Yesterday I heard a man promoting his church saying that a man who converted a few months ago said he was very grateful because within a few months of coming to that church he already had a good job and was doing well financially.
I just looked at him for a while and since that moment I haven't stopped thinking about how he promoted his church and I asked myself: Really? Is this how you promote your church and your pastor?
No regeneration, no knowledge of God, no new life in relationship with God, no hatred of the sin he committed before... but... money!!! Now he has money!!! -In a few words, convert to the gospel if you want to have money-
And not that I don't want money, not that I don't need money; I love money, I need money. The life I live due to lack of money is horrible. But the true gospel is not about money. Jesus said "The son of man has no place to rest his head."
The apostle Paul spent his time in need, in fact, none of the men of God who have ever existed were characterized by living in opulence, most of them died being poor because even those who were rich donated their wealth to help those most in need. .
By the way, thanks to one of those men who donated their wealth to serve God in the 1920s, a great evangelistic movement came to Venezuela from the ministry of Charles T. Studd.
Something curious and tremendous that I have seen is pastors encouraging the church to give to those most in need, but they themselves do not take ten dollars out of their own pockets. They give various preachings manipulating parishioners to give to the poor, but they do not give a single dollar from their own pockets.
This modern gospel is easy, you copy the model that works that is hillsong and lakewood, you preach pure motivational phrases, you tell people that if they come to the gospel God will prosper them, they will become rich (not necessarily because of God) , the pastor becomes rich with his tithes and offerings and at the end of time they go to hell and the pastor too because the gospel was not preached but to the genie of the lamp that fulfills all desires, everything easy.
Note: There is an irrefutable truth at the beginning: the devil pays better than God, the devil treats people better than God. While you have to wait for the final judgment to pay God, the devil can give you whatever you want right now; while the Bible says that God flogs all those whom the heretical (hence diabolical) churches take as children, treating them with so much love and sweetness that you have to be careful not to get a diabetic coma.
NOTE, this is not an apology for abuse nor does it mean that where they treat you badly and do not bathe or comb their hair and dress badly is the correct church, Par favore!! Let's not confuse things, I'm just establishing an irrefutable truth.
And again, it's not that I'm saying this because I have a lot of money. I need money, I need money, my life is horrible for lack of money (apart from other things) but no, I don't want to get it by preaching and living a gospel that will take me and those who follow me to hell. No, thanks.
Kisses, I am the profebubba
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