There are some good organizations out there, for sure, and some good teaching from them, but more and more it seems that these leaders have become full of themselves. Just like many of the mega-church pastors who have started making their own doctrines more important than Scripture, they eventually fall pray to their own devices. You can only fool people so long before it becomes obvious that something is wrong. The worst part is that most these leaders make excuses for themselves and make others submit to secrecy...so that the media doesn’t distort “things”.
Personally, I think it is time to get really connected to a local church that you like, would like to minister in and with, and forget most of the TV evangelists, etc. When “tshtf” these big guys are going away and the local church will be the one still in business in some way. Local churches can do a lot for the needy and for God’s Kingdom. It also helps to stabilize the community one lives in. We may need to all take our local churches out of the tax exempt status to survive, so it behooves us to make sure buildings are paid off, bills are current, etc. That way we can afford to stay in the business of saving souls and caring for the needy.
Agree 100%. One of my relatives is a preacher. He’s had a problem with the huge building programs (youth centers, giant church buildings) that involve the church taking out debt. His argument is that having the debt and having to pay a note on that prevents the preacher from really preaching the gospel. If the preacher offends people bu speaking out against divorce, homosexuality or the like, they’ll take their tithes elsewhere. ‘My little Johnny was BORN that way, he is NOT going to hell!’. etc.
At the time our family thought he was just being a spoilsport. Turns out he may have been right about that.