We are to discern the false teachers among us as there are many.
The reason I always respected Billy Graham was that he never begged for money and he always made sure there was another person with him in the company of women. If you will note, he was never asking you to send funds - which is quite different from the online preachers that ask you to plant the seed of faith with some of your funds.
Notice how they teach that you plant the seed of faith by sending money and that doing so will insure your wealth - they have corrupted the message.
Jesus never promised wealth - he taught sacrifice.
Being a Christian does not exclude us from the problems of human life on earth - but it does give us the best friend in the world to go through the hard times. There is no better friend than Jesus.
Non-believers will never believe that there is comfort received from God - but any Christian can tell you.
Non-believers cannot see or understand that comfort and the why we love Jesus - it is totally foreign to them and they judge with outsider’s eyes.
But, it is their loss. They go through life with no true friend, with no comfort from God during the hard times and no future after death. And, they do not even know what they are giving up. Amazing.
I was listening to a Christian radio station and one of the guys on it said that they recieved some incredible number of cards, I think he said 3 million, something in the millions. I thought to myself that he was a liar or the worst guy at math ever. Then the show ended and I found out it was someone speaking on behalf of a Graham crusade.
Just a funny little lesson for me in not judging others too quickly.