I wrote about how with all the chaos happening around us and all the hopelessness in this world, the last thing we should have is to bash each other in God’s Church (yes, the big C). Read about it here.
I saw a link on Twitter last night from Dateline interviewing Benny Hinn.
Got me thinking today while I was driving.
1. People are calling him fake or robbing innocent people’s money for his fake ‘healing’. I’ve watched his shows before but I’ve never been to his events. All I know is….how do you explain the supernatural? If the question is, how come that person says they were healed, but now is blind again. Shrug. Do they know why the sun sets on the west?
2. His organization has a private jet. Something about costing $10 million of the $100+ million revenue per year the organization gets in donation. I know few pastors have private jets because of their tight speaking engagement and with the increasing in security at the airports, this saves them time. I am not saying it’s the best way to use the money but hey, it’s not you nor me that have to report to the Judge on the last day. Maybe it is the best way. But are people complaining because they think $10 million is a lot? Let’s see, that’s 10% right? Question for those who point finger at this….What’s the percentage of your monthly salary do you spend on YOURSELF?
3. Whenever any church makes more than few million, it gets put under the light of scrutiny. Even organizations that sends missionaries out to the parts of the world where the gospel isn’t been preached. Missionaries raise money to go. Though people seem to have this mentality that missionaries are suppose to be poor. Why is that? If they are able to raise funds and God provides for them, is it so bad? What’s in the values of those paper bills anyway? There is so much of this worldly view ingrained in the mind of some people, it baffles me. Yes we are called to be good stewards, so why don’t we look at our own spending, instead of judging others? Yes You and Me! With a stable job at a big corporation with big pay checks, 401k, stock grants, medical benefits…are you spending your finances wisely? Where is your trust for your future? Is it God or is it your bank?
People who chose to accept the calling of being a pastor or church planters ultimately come under greater judgment. Like any humans, we all make mistakes. There is already plenty of work to do in the Church and enough adversaries trying to make it ineffective. Why be the pain when you can be the gain?
We are suppose to cast our world view into the world, let it shine and let people see. Not the other way around! We don’t need worldly world view into the church. What’s the point?
I obviously don’t spend my time following through with all the different ministries, televangelists or churches and so not really endorsing one of the other. But just saying….
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