Never in the history of Christianity has there been so many sermons and preachers begging for money. Is God broke? God says \u201cblessed are the poor\u201d we say in our twisted days \u201cblessed are the rich\u201d. God says \u201cgodliness with contentment is great gain!\u201d we say in our materialistic age \u201cgodliness is great financial gain!\u201d. Right now as I am writing this article there are 1000\u2032s of T.V. preachers begging for money. There are 10,000\u2032s of people opening envelopes and emails as we speaking right now of ministries pleading for financial support. What a travesty that the first impression of the mind of unbelievers in North America is that Christianity is about money.<\/p>\n
I admit personally in my life and ministry there were times where I asked for financial support and went against my conscience in that matter. I do believe there is reason and balance and it will vary from ministry to ministry of making some need known. But I do feel the best and most excellent way is to serve God and ask the Father in secret for your needs.<\/p>\n
Judas was the money changer and it is surprising so many pastors want to follow in the steps of Judas rather then Jesus. Never has so little been done with so much money for the Gospel. The Gospel work of Jesus Christ requires little money but much men. It requires little financial begging but much knee work before God in prayer. If we were prevailing with God instead of pleading with men for our needs they would have been met overabundantly by this point.<\/p>\n
Zac Poonen said this: \u201cThe early Christians were humble enough to acknowledge their lack of wisdom in such matters. That was why they gave their gifts to the apostles to be distributed to the poor. But those apostles never touched any of that money themselves.\u201d Their are needs for money to be given for the poor, helpless, and to some workers of the gospel \u201cthe workman is worthy of his hire.\u201d But what a contrast we see between these Apostles in the Scriptures and the modern day pastor.<\/p>\n
This is a challenge to all Christians to stop giving to these ministries on T.V. who are fleecing the sheep and making themselves rich. Give to ministries that are humble, small, that don\u2019t beg. Find modern day prophets to give to. Don\u2019t give to the slick sleek pastor who just says \u201cnice\u201d things to comfort you.<\/p>\n
By Greg Gordon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Never in the history of Christianity has there been so many sermons and preachers begging for money. Is God broke? God says \u201cblessed are the poor\u201d we say in our twisted days \u201cblessed are the rich\u201d. God says \u201cgodliness with contentment is great gain!\u201d we say in our materialistic age \u201cgodliness is great financial gain!\u201d. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7XeBW-17","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watchmansjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watchmansjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watchmansjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watchmansjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watchmansjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.watchmansjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"http:\/\/www.watchmansjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watchmansjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watchmansjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watchmansjournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}