Time to go simple Christians!
If your pastor has a cache of fine cigars to share in leasure .. leave.
Good post.
Thank you.
I'd leave out the 'male'. That should be a given, anyway.
The “sheep” do not know their Shepard’s voice. How can they tell their right hand from their left?
Excellent article. Couldn’t say it better myself.
This has frauds like the money scammer Joel Osteen all over it. Now that creep is advertising on XM Satellite radio. Guy makes my skin crawl.
More importantly...
If your pastor doesn’t teach the Scriptures, leave.
If your church doesn’t believe in inspiration of Scripture, leave.
If your church adds doctrines to Scripture, leave.
If your church fails to teach the Gospel of Grace, leave.
If your leadership is immoral, leave.
I don’t care what they wear... Toga, jeans, suit, bus casual.
If your church is dumping filthy koranimals in your AO during a time of war -
http://www.abeldanger.net/2014/10/refuges-as-weapons-mobilizing.html
Almost makes the James Gang: Jimmy Bakker, Billy James Hargis and Jimmy Swaggart look good. Hallelujah
Brother Lew
Guess what? He drives a car as old or older as mine (my vehicle is 12 years old.) His kids have college debt. His house isn't any better than mine and for the most part he is a better dresser than I am, but I'm a blue jeans and polo shirts kinda guy and have been for the last 30 years. (Drives my wife nuts that last part.)
I don't question the amount of money my pastor makes or how he spends his money --- it's pretty plain as day.
...and if your pastor can’t wipe the smirk off his face (as in Houston here).
Back in the 70’s my Cathloic church priest had a brand new orchid color, color probably donated by the local paint shop, cadillac with a vanity plate of’HGHOST’
Amen!
1 Corinthians 4:9-13 ESV
For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men. We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and buffeted and homeless, and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things. 1 Cor 4
Maybe, just maybe this message comes to all of us Christians, regardless of what church you attend, be it St. Joseph’s Cathredral or the little Holy Bible Non-Denomintial Church just around the corner, when the attacks start to come HERE, we as CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS will have NO CHOICE but to give our witnessing for the HOPE AND CHANGE, THE REAL HOPE AND CHANGE, NOT the POLITICAL version that WE DO HAVE, which is in the GOD of the HOLY BIBLE.
Thank-you for taking the time to read my classic rant, and God Bless.
If your church supports life wing causes leave.
Prosperity preachers livin’ the dream, for now....
The nightmare is coming.