I don’t have much time to write about this one, but here’s a news article that talks about a Church who is kicking out an 80 year old, social security paid, single woman because she only paid her tithe twice this year.
I hate that churches can keep their non-profit status after pulling stunts like this. The Church acts just like the IRS.
Here is an investigation by CBS News, looking into the kenneth copeland ministries. Of course you might have to watch a commercial first.
I read a news article from the author, Bridgett Williams-NBC Augusta titled, “Faith First: Translating The Tithe”. You can view the article here. There was a video on there interviewing two pastors, and i want to quote one of the pastors. He said,
“Those that feel that they can’t afford to tithe are those that will remain in poverty for the rest of their lives.”
I guess there’s two ways to take that. Does he mean that they’ll be in spiritual poverty or does he mean that physically, you’ll be in poverty? I’m guessing he’s one of those people who have been suckered into the health and wealth gospel, so he probably meant physical poverty. So for those of you who are making over $130,000 a year, and you feel that you can’t afford to tithe just remember that you’ll remain in that poverty until you start tithing. I don’t think most people could live on $130,000. Do you?
There’s been some big time media coverage lately especially with the article just written by the Wall Street Journal, “Tags: news, poverty, tithe, tithing
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Lots of scandals going on in the Church lately but here’s the latest news written by Justing Juozapavicius in the Associated Press – “Embattled Oral Roberts President Resigns”. The link to the news article is here. There were allegations brought up a few months ago that Richard Roberts, the president, had used some of the University’s funds to support his lavish lifestyle. Some of the allegations brought forward are, “a $39,000 shopping tab at one store for Richard Roberts’ wife, Lindsay, a $29,411 Bahamas senior trip on the university jet for one of Roberts’ daughters, and a stable of horses for the Roberts children.” I’m one of those people that think our leaders deserve a bountiful reward and compensation, but i gotta tell you, 29,000 for a Bahamas senior trip, and a 39,000 shopping tab at only one store? I hope they were just shopping for a car.
It’s bad enough that Britney Spears is in the news for her shopping habits let alone a Christian evangelist. I’m glad that the faculty and chair members had enough guts to stand up for what’s right. This extortion of charitable funds in order to support lavish lifestyles needs to end inside the Christian community. I have nothing wrong with Christians having money, just don’t hoard it all. There’s just something wrong with a Christian group calling themselves a charitable organization, when the presidents and directors are living a life of luxury in the top 1% of the world. It’s practically an oxymoron to say that they are a charitable organization but yet, their biggest charity is to themselves.
I Just read a news article written by Meg Hibbert on OurValley.org that wrote about a couple who developed a board game to help teach Christians prosperity. We’re Americans. Aren’t we prosperous enough?
They said the game is much like monopoly, and that players do some things to work their way into the winners circle, including tithing. I can hear the windows of heaven opening right up.
You know what the most ironic thing about this game is that it costs $125.00! That is ridiculous! If you can afford a $125 game, i can tell you right now that you do not need to learn any more prosperity. I do not know the actual cost of the game for the couple to manufacture it, but it seems that they understand that prosperity always comes at the expense of others. I mean for them to charge $125. Either they need to figure out how to cut the cost by 70% or they need to cut their greed down a little bit. I wonder if overcharging is one of the goals to prosperity in this game? This is almost funny. Yeah let me teach my kids prosperity by blowing $125 on a game, i think there’s much more efficient ways of learning prosperity.
The title of the board game is called, “Living Life Abundantly”. You know why the name is given a lucrative “Abundant” title is because the word “stewardship” isn’t fun for people. I can’t stand this whole greedy mentality anymore. We’re so consumed with (our) life and (our) abundance. It’s sad that we don’t want to live the life of a steward because we love God and want to do what’s best. Through this board game you can see that most people force themselves to be stewards in hopes of reaching the abundance. Yeah, yeah, they included tithing in that board game, which is pretty selfless, but that doesn’t mean our prosperity multiplies just because we gave some money.
All i can do is speak for myself, but i wouldn’t touch that game. Do you think the game is worth it?
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070505/NEWS10/70505004
The above article is about a religious organization who gave $10 to those who attended the sunday service. I don’t know if you can call it a ‘reverse tithe’, but it’s interesting that they gave money away. All that they asked from the receivers, was for them to give that money to someone or something other than that church, that they feel they are spiritually fed from. I really don’t know anything about the “unity church”, so what are your thoughts on their giving? should other churches follow? Maybe you just have something you want to say about the “unity church”
( Tithe website home page)
The link below is to an article about couples who are living on the average income in their region. This specific link talks about a couple who tithes to their church, and struggles to make it, but yet they, “had to apply for food assistance for their children.” If you go to the next page of the article you can see the stats that they give a tithe to the church.
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/pf/0702/gallery.median_income/3.html
This just blows my mind away. What is wrong with these people? First of all, what a horrible testimony for Christ. Second of all, “if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” Third of all, how could this couple not feel guilty about this(but of course, they’ve been brainwashed into the Malachi 3 thinking). Fourth, this is a perfect opportunity for the government to stick their fingers into the church and control them. If i was the government, I wouldn’t allow churches to pass of their own to feed off the welfare of others. That’s what the church is for and that’s why we give to the church body. The government knows that the church claims non-profit in order to provide for the welfare of others, but soon, Satan’s gonna attack legislature to pass laws to control how this money is spent. If the church continues this poor stewardship then the lawmakers will pass laws like they did the “tithing bankruptcy” law, to prohibit the liberality of the church. Truthfully, I applaud the tithing bankruptcy law. Someone’s gotta stand up to biblical principles of debt if the church doesn’t do it. I could go on and on here.
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This article stated, “California Pastor Stole the Whole Church“, pretty much explains the whole story. This man just stole a bunch of money, and sold the title deed of his church. In the mean time he was driving around in a BMW. This guy has guts. Is there anyone out there that can discern a little bit better about the wrong and right Spirits? Just continues to show that there needs to be more accountability, with our leaders. I really don’t think this guy is that much worse off than the people who coerce you into giving and call it the Lord’s will. Hey all they did was ask if they could steal your money.
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