You hit the nail on the head. Many preachers thrive on the lost, and they make a lot of money from them. What they forget is “Where do you get hope from?”
Colossians 1:24-28
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Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh? Can the reeds flourish without water? While it is yet green and not cut down, it withers before any other plant. So are the paths of all who forget God; and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish, whose confidence shall be cut off, and whose trust is a spiders web.
Job 8:11-14