But that is exactly the lesson. Those who live by the hand of the government will also die by it. When you base your livelihood upon a means that God has not ordained as right, you will end up being hurt when God comes to pull the plug on it.
Those on welfare, social security, and medicare beware. What we see here is only a picture of what is to come on a larger and more devastating scale. My advice to you is to begin to prepare for this event by returning to a Biblically ordered way of living.
Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things
written in the Book of the Law, and do them.
Dueteronomy 27:26
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My advice to any church goers is this: If you're struggling right now, and your pastor is living high-off-the-hog; stop tithing!
God wants you to take care of your family, not Timmy's expense account.
Just so everyone knows, Timmy lives low off the squirrel, can't even imagine having a big expense account, doesn't believe in tithing, and has never asked for a single dime.
Rather, he does believe in giving cheerfully as God has prospered you and commends the widow's mite (as did Jesus).
He does also believes he could be making quite a mint serving in an established church in suburbia USA. But instead has choosen to squeek by and supplement his income with a second job in order to see the Word of God faithfully proclaimed and a solid, Christ exalting church established.
But, if you and your family are struggling, Timmy will do whatever is within his power to see to it that you are well supplied.
Ashland should be so lucky! A young up-and-coming pastor is pimping the NJ website for his promotion (so he can GROW a church I suppose), but of course "It's for the purpose of spreading the Word." Ha!
If you COULD be in suburbia raping the wallets of suburbian sheep, you WOULD! Be like the Apostolics and work for free.
Otherwise, you're just another religious leech siphoning the livelihood from working class America.
Simply put, you're a businessman peddling the greatest product in human history: salvation.
I read quote from a REAL businessman:
"Fail at business, try again. Fail twice, try again. Fail three times, try once more. Fail four times, start a church."
I guess you will just have to come and see for yourself.
Since, as you say, I'm in the business of peddling the gospel, I might as well ask: What will happen to you when you die?
(Did I mention that our church doesn't even pass an offering plate?)
The really humorous thing in this whole debate is that, unless you know who this is, Matt, that they can criticize withoug revealing their name. Its easy to judge when you can do it hiding behind an anonymous label.
And by the way, as someone who knows Matt, I can vouch for the fact that he is a man doing what he does out of passion for the message, not for a fat expense account and living the good life.
Anonymous, your posts are lame slanders that reveal zero Biblical knowledge, but do reveal much about you as a haughty scoffer. Your way is the road to destruction. Why don't you go to Matt's church and get to know him? So the "Apostolics" (assume you mean Apostles) worked for free? 'fraid not. As for Pastors living off their preaching, 1 Cor 9:14: "In the same way, the Lord commanded that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel."
Matt, this is a great post and a timely warning. I've been thinking much along the same lines of late. All of the economic problems are going to trickle down with devastating (and cleansing in many cases) effects. You're going to see bankrupt cities, schools, non-profits, etc. I heard that our school district down here has a principal and staff for every grade. That kind of thing will be changing once the Feds can no longer keep subsidizing high home prices and property values are allowed to fall to where the market wants them to be. That's especially true in places with a lot of expensive housing developments built during Fed-created boom of the early to mid 2000s. Local and state gov'ts (thankfully) don't have the option of stealing by printing money.
The Ponzi schemes of Social Security and Medicare will soon be nothing but income redistribution schemes. Rationing, means-testing out most of the populace, and further devaluing the dollar (and Americans' standard of living) will be on the menu.
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