Posted on 02/12/2007 7:08:10 AM PST by Rakkasan1
Pastor Mac Hammond's congregation at Living Word Christian Center in Brooklyn Park reacted strongly Sunday to his appearance in the wake of a watchdog's group complaint to the Internal Revenue Service that he violated federal tax law and a front-page Star Tribune article examining his financial dealings: Worshipers gave him a prolonged, cheer-laced standing ovation.
"Y'all better sit down; I'll get too choked up to minister," drawled Hammond, 63, pastor of the nondenominational megachurch, which has almost 10,000 members. He called questions about his financial dealings "a misunderstanding" of his prosperity-gospel ministry, which holds that following God's word leads to spiritual and economic bounty.
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that's why he's the BigMacDaddy
Amazing...simply amazing. You, and others like you might have nailed the coffin shut on Christianity as we know it...so, after all of that...it's nothing more than a get rich quick scheme...with salvation as a added benefit.
You make a lot of statments but I don't see any Chapter
and Verse.
That's because he didn't have enough faith. If He had faith, Jesus would have a Lear Jet and a Bentley.
The vows are meant to be a public witness to Gospel values. They are not meant to be restrictions on our lives, but rather attitudes toward life and signs of hope.
While our understanding of the vows grows and develops, we generally see the vows in this way:
- Poverty – a call to live for the sake of the poor, to act for justice, to advocate against oppressive policies, to embrace a simple lifestyle.
- Chastity – a call to love well and non-exclusively, to care deeply for and about others, to love totally for the sake of others.
- Obedience – a call to listen to the voice of the Spirit in all of life, to search for truth.
You might want to clue in the poor sisters that they are actually doing the devil's work.
Opposites may attract, but Like follows Like.. The "flock" wants to hear that gross materialism is from God, or it wouldn't tolerate this lie.
They all have their reward.
And a ROLEX
Really. So you think if you belong to God, you are going to have material wealth? Is that REALLY what you think?
Godly prosperity means money as well as health and salvation..
Ah, so that is what you think. Then Jesus made a mistake when He used the poor woman who gave all she had as an example of a Godly person.
And if you think Jesus was mistaken, as you obviously, do, then that's of the devil right there.
Exactly.
I've not read the Bible in-depth (as many Freepers have) but I haven't been able to find any Biblically-based statements to support wearing expensive suits and sports cars.
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I watch a Pastor on TV each week. He preaches a solid Gospel message and never mentions money. And he has a big church in the city where he is. We cannot tar all the big TV preachers with the same brush.
Tell that to the poor Chinese, Indian, African, etc. Christians that have next to nothing. Give me a chapter and verse where Jesus says that poverty is of the devil.
1Ti 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Phil. 4:11b for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances.
Church of the Divine Profit.
Mac hopes the IRS is content with his explanations.
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