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I would identify what you seem to have, *Kiwidan* as more of an "obsession" than just simply "going on a bit too much." LOL
 
I would identify what you seem to have, *Kiwidan* as more of an "obsession" than just simply "going on a bit too much." LOL

Not quite, its in one string, and was one or two day of posting and i was in conversation with jason most of it. If i went on about it everyday or made topics on it then maybe it would be obsession. And I have finished talking about it now anyhow.
 
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I was not in a remote way suggestin you listen to joyce meyer.I dont.I was simply pointing out your bias.I have one book of hers and listened to her and watched her.

It's called being honest.I don't agree with her method of using her royalties,but I do know of person blessed by her. Also I could dig deep into that problem of well only a ministry should.if you are saved,you are a priest, and that is a type of ministry. We are called serve and not alll will hold an office in the five fold ministry. But if you work ,have a spouse ,kids.there is your ministry.

I could run that well he earned those millions,Uhm I see a lot of what wealth can do to some.wealth can be a blessing or a cursing if we don't watch it.
 
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Joyce Meyers is a good teacher. But her financial empire undermines her image in the world and the church and that's sad. Creflo Dollar teaches really good stuff, too, believe it or not. And he has said he got rich from his personal investments, not from the ministry. I haven't watched him enough to know for sure, but he probably has the most genuine 'Prosperity Gospel' out there. You WORK and you live in obedience and God blesses you. You don't sit on the couch writing checks on your already meager funds and wait for a million dollars to show up on your door step.

Joyce and Creflo are the only two on TV I will watch. The Ken Copelands and Robert Tiltons have made it so that terms like 'charismatic', 'Full Gospel', and 'baptism in the Holy Spirit' have to be thrown out. They've tainted them so badly in the eyes of the world and church that people instantly associate those greedy clowns with those terms and decide those are not legitimate things and dismiss the fact that they really are. They have a very hot day waiting for them at the Judgment. They have done terrible, irreparable damage to Christ and the Church in the world. I'm appalled at the depth of greed these false teachers have sunk to. Because of the extent to which sin has them in it's grip I consider them no better than Hitler. Dangerous, destructive people serving an utterly selfish, personal agenda on a global scale.
 
Joyce Meyers is a good teacher. But her financial empire undermines her image in the world and the church and that's sad. Creflo Dollar teaches really good stuff, too, believe it or not. And he has said he got rich from his personal investments, not from the ministry. I haven't watched him enough to know for sure, but he probably has the most genuine 'Prosperity Gospel' out there. You WORK and you live in obedience and God blesses you. You don't sit on the couch writing checks on your already meager funds and wait for a million dollars to show up on your door step.

Joyce and Creflo are the only two on TV I will watch. The Ken Copelands and Robert Tiltons have made it so that terms like 'charismatic', 'Full Gospel', and 'baptism in the Holy Spirit' have to be thrown out. They've tainted them so badly in the eyes of the world and church that people instantly associate those greedy clowns with those terms and decide those are not legitimate things and dismiss the fact that they really are. They have a very hot day waiting for them at the Judgment. They have done terrible, irreparable damage to Christ and the Church in the world. I'm appalled at the depth of greed these false teachers have sunk to. Because of the extent to which sin has them in it's grip I consider them no better than Hitler. Dangerous, destructive people serving an utterly selfish, personal agenda on a global scale.

Creflo teaches Adam could fly and teleport himself anywhere he wanted and that all the planets are God's unfinished creation. Lol. The planets must not be up to his standard.
 
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Creflo teaches Adam could fly and teleport himself anywhere he wanted and that all the planets are God's unfinished creation. Lol. The planets must not be up to his standard.
That's based on the thinking that Adam was like we are going to be in our resurrected bodies. Jesus after he was resurrected walked through walls and could teleport to wherever he wanted to go.
I can't prove Creflo wrong about if Adam had that ability or not, can you?
I'm surprised (once again) that Hank Hanagraff the Bible Know-It-All guy didn't think of how Jesus could do those things.

The blessings of God in this life, including money, are indeed based on what you do:
"6Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully." (1 Corinthians 9:6 NASB)

Most people in the church simply do not know this--that God's blessings are conditional on what you do (while justification is not). You have to attend a church, or listen to a ministry, that teaches ALL of the scriptures to know this. That's what 'Full Gospel' is all about. They don't skip over parts of the Bible because of being told 'that doesn't mean what it means', or 'that isn't true anymore'. Okay, so some of them skip over the 'love of money' part, and that's what drove the whole movement into the ground to the point you can't even use the phrase 'Full Gospel' anymore without being beat up.

He won't own it personally. It will belong to the ministry. And they already have one. So it's not like he was asking something utterly outrageous. If my pastor was an itinerant world traveling speaker it would not be unreasonable that the church have it's own mode of transportation for him to do that. Don't get me wrong, I prolly wouldn't attend a church that had that kind of pastor and ministry. At the very least, it just looks bad.

My pastor when he worked for the 700 Club in Atlanta was given a new Chrysler Cordoba as a gift from an appreciative church member. He used it to pick Pat Robertson up at the airport and when Pat got off the plane and saw it he literally gave him the thumbs down. Though my pastor was perfectly entitled to it, it just wasn't the appearance he should be giving out to others. He sold it.
 
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The blessings of God in this life, including money, are indeed based on what you do:
"6Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully." (1 Corinthians 9:6 NASB)
Most people in the church simply do not know this--that God's blessings are conditional on what you do (while justification is not). You have to attend a church, or listen to a ministry, that teaches ALL of the scriptures to know this. That's what 'Full Gospel' is all about.

Right, is that why everyone who gives to false christs these false christs sit covered in gold living in luxury with everyones tithe calling it a blessing from sowing nothing just recieving, and everyone who sows works for life broke as a joke. What a great blessing.

I have never heard a testimony of anyone who has sowed money in the church and recieved anything back from the church, or won lotto, or recieved 10 fold back somehow unless they invest in corps and shares they might make money. A works based gospel is not a blessing.
 
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My pastor when he worked for the 700 Club in Atlanta was given a new Chrysler Cordoba as a gift from an appreciative church member. He used it to pick Pat Robertson up at the airport and when Pat got off the plane and saw it he literally gave him the thumbs down. Though my pastor was perfectly entitled to it, it just wasn't the appearance he should be giving out to others. He sold it.

Yet it was OK for Pat to buy sell trade etc race horses... ?
 
None of us are 100% right in what we speak...anything... The TV personalities are no different.. My disdain for WOF does not make WOF wrong... Nor does my disdain make me correct.
Thinking of this Passage
Isa 55:10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
Isa 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Isa 55:12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

The Word of God is the Word of God Can the Word be read in a Hallmark card, A billboard, a flash on a TV screen, even a Chick tract .. will accomplish What God chooses..

Look at verse 12 there kiwidan where is your joy? Joy in the Lord is strength. We all could use some Joy of the Lord...
 
i dont think God's servants should live in poverty, but I do get...uncomfortable....when the feds investigate ministries. I get even more uncomfortable when a mix of business savvy and a popular message turns some preachers into 1%-ers, while many of the people sending them $$$ and buying books, dvds, etc. are scraping to get by.

so, yeah...i dunno. I'd rather spend a lil bit of $$$ on Battlefield of the Mind than a load of $$$ on some worldly "mental health professional" who couldn't possibly care less (been there, done that...), but the situation is kinda...complicated. Should anyone who makes their living off of Scripture and teaching how to apply God's wisdom to daily life have multiple homes, a plane, etc.? If I say "no," is it jealousy, some kind of anti-capitalist sentiment, or do I (and other people, too) have a point? Should there be a 'line,' in terms of compensation and lifestyle? If so, where is this line? Who decides? Who enforces it?
 
Right, is that why everyone who gives to false christs these false christs sit covered in gold living in luxury with everyones tithe calling it a blessing from sowing nothing just recieving, and everyone who sows works for life broke as a joke. What a great blessing.

I have never heard a testimony of anyone who has sowed money in the church and recieved anything back from the church, or won lotto, or recieved 10 fold back somehow unless they invest in corps and shares they might make money. A works based gospel is not a blessing.
I beg to differ,give and it shall be given unto you ..

At times that will be extra money.if only u could convince my wife of that.
 
I beg to differ,give and it shall be given unto you ..

At times that will be extra money.if only u could convince my wife of that.

Freely give, freely recieve.
And like Paul says only give what you feel like giving with no compulsary.

So its a fact every single tithe church opposes Christ and Pauls teachings of freely giving under the gospel of grace, they prefer works and the law.

As soon as something is a compulsary it becomes a Law. So tithe is a Law. Must at least tithe 10% of income.

I do find it amazing how when it comes to tithe the law given to Moses still stands, yet everything else doesn't. Dont really see them obeying all the other festivals and offerings thats but them in complete bondage. No, just 10% of income will do fine, even 100% is Gods.

They want to live under Moses but only for tithe but as Christ says dont think I will accuse you before the Father, your accuser is Moses. They want to live under works of the Law.

The tithe goes to the Levite and i dont even think there is a single known Levite, gentiles claiming to be Jews taking the Levites tithe.
 
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None of us are 100% right in what we speak...anything... The TV personalities are no different.. My disdain for WOF does not make WOF wrong... Nor does my disdain make me correct.
Thinking of this Passage
Isa 55:10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
Isa 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Isa 55:12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

The Word of God is the Word of God Can the Word be read in a Hallmark card, A billboard, a flash on a TV screen, even a Chick tract .. will accomplish What God chooses..

Look at verse 12 there kiwidan where is your joy? Joy in the Lord is strength. We all could use some Joy of the Lord...

Where is my Joy?. Im happy truth me. I know the Gospel and the Gospel is Jesus is enough I dont need anything more. Nothing at all, no wealth or health or anything. It dont matter the situation.

These prosperity Teachers tell me Jesus can tell me how to live a really nice life its in the scriptures. But all i found was Jesus saying deny yourself and take up your cross. Oh, he did tell his diciples to have joy because he has overcome the world. Yes the Gospel of grace is Joy. Even the Apostles rejoiced after being thrown in prison and beaten senceless. What great prosperous lives they lived.
 
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But Kiwidan you seem to complain a lot... :shrug

you posted 38 words about your joy
74 about the prosperity guys
 
But Kiwidan you seem to complain a lot... :shrug

you posted 38 words about your joy
74 about the prosperity guys

Because my Joy is trying to lead people back to the truth that is a gospel of grace not a gospel of works, and teachers of truth in the scriptures, not false christs. :cool2

" For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. "
 
Freely give, freely recieve.
And like Paul says only give what you feel like giving with no compulsary.

So its a fact every single tithe church opposes Christ and Pauls teachings of freely giving under the gospel of grace, they prefer works and the law.

As soon as something is a compulsary it becomes a Law. So tithe is a Law. Must at least tithe 10% of income.

I do find it amazing how when it comes to tithe the law given to Moses still stands, yet everything else doesn't. Dont really see them obeying all the other festivals and offerings thats but them in complete bondage. No, just 10% of income will do fine, even 100% is Gods.

They want to live under Moses but only for tithe but as Christ says dont think I will accuse you before the Father, your accuser is Moses. They want to live under works of the Law.

The tithe goes to the Levite and i dont even think there is a single known Levite, gentiles claiming to be Jews taking the Levites tithe.
Uh have you attended these churches?

A set mandate of giving You voluntarily gave and agree to is hardly a legalistic. I have tithed and my pastor teaches it.I I don't agree with the word use but it's really a great start of a faith thing. God I trust you first to provide as I gave a tenth of my pay each week to provide.

In a non tithing church you set the amount to give.I have not attended those as much .offerings are giving above what your obligation is.Do you have a problem with believing an amount of obliging to give to God as its all his?

It's a heart issue.my pastor because of the church financial issue took a pay cut.he never mentioned a struggle to pay bills and he gave back to the church.
 
Uh have you attended these churches?

A set mandate of giving You voluntarily gave and agree to is hardly a legalistic. I have tithed and my pastor teaches it.I I don't agree with the word use but it's really a great start of a faith thing. God I trust you first to provide as I gave a tenth of my pay each week to provide.

In a non tithing church you set the amount to give.I have not attended those as much .offerings are giving above what your obligation is.Do you have a problem with believing an amount of obliging to give to God as its all his?

It's a heart issue.my pastor because of the church financial issue took a pay cut.he never mentioned a struggle to pay bills and he gave back to the church.

It does not matter. Giving a compulsary amount is works based. If people think they must give a certain amount they are living under the law of God and have rejected the gospel of grace.

God is not interested in peoples tithes. He likes freely give, freely recieve, a good heart and a clean conscience.

Anyone who thinks they must or should give a compulsary amount has rejected the gospel of grace.

These false teachings telling people to tithe who are leading people away from grace and into works why they recieve.

You don't need to give 10% to have a clean conscience before God.
 
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