I was watching Donny Swaggart today. Pretty good preaching on 2 Chronicles 20, but he left out the part that Jehoshaphat called on Israel to "fast" and seek God. He just talked about seeking God. A lot of these modern preachers don't want to fast or deny themselves in any way. Then Joel Osteen was "preaching" on some kind of sociology or psychology or something that had nothing related to anything the Bible said at all. I didn't waste my time watching that for long. Then Pastor John Hagee. It sounded alright. Until you think a little about what he was saying. One thing he said was supposedly quoting the Bible "if you don't work you shouldn't eat." How many have heard that before? They'll always misquote it that way, Rod Parsley and others. If that's what the Bible said there shouldn't be any welfare programs and you shouldn't do any almsgivng to the poor, but the early church had a welfare system and gave alms to the poor. 2 Thessalonians chapter 3 verse 10 says "if any would not work, neither should he eat." See, it didn't say "do not work" it says "would not work." This is talking about people able to work in every way and are not willing to work because they're lazy. And in context it's talking just about people in the church so it has nothing to do with a public welfare system at all. In the early church they had all things in common. Like a commune. Money was divided as they had need. Some of the people who were able to work weren't and were taking advantage of the system. Read the whole passage and don't give any more to this overweight, divorced and remarried millionaire Republican. At least Donny Swaggart said he was planning on dropping out of the Republican Party, a step in the right direction. See http://www.squidoo.com/tithes-and-offerings --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
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