Pimping the Gospel for profit. ( Truth versus the Lie)

It is a reality that there are people in the "church world" who have lost there way and use the church as a money/honey pot. There are those who never found the way and came into the church for the express purpose of using its resources for personal gain. I understand that a pastor in my area declared to his church that the church would make him rich. It is a rather large church but you never say things like that. Then there are those who truly love God and strive to remain in the way of truth (some of them have become prosperous through wise investment, business and networking). When people from each of these groups are equally prosperous how do you tell who is wealthy by wicked means ,through trickery and deceit? And who is wealthy through godly means(wise investment, revelation from God and etc.)

God does want his men and women propsperous.

Secondly, what do you do with Christians who are taught truth, taught proper biblical principles of wealth but are lazy and are not doers of the word? Many of them become angry when the pastor or leader of integrity who is practicing the principles he or she teaches, becomes very well and then are accussed of stealing from the church.

The devil is busy! We must have more prosperous saints and less aints.

What do you all think about this?

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Comment by PASTOR CHARLES E BELL JR on July 29, 2009 at 9:31am: I AGREE REV LUCKETT. PRESTON IF YOU GIVE GOD YOUR HEART THEN NO ONE WILL HAVE TO ASK YOU TO GIVE YOUR TITHED . WHEN GOD BLESS YOU HE BLESS YOU WITH MORE THEN MONEY .HE WILL GIVE YOU A PEACE OF MIND,GOOD HEALTH,YOUR NEEDS , WAS YOU GIVEING IT BECAUSE THE PASTOR TOLD YOU TOO OR GOD COMMEND YOU TO.WAS IT TO PLEASE YOUR PASTOR OR GOD. IN ALL YOU DO DO IT IN JESUS TRY IT THAT WHY AND LET GOD BLESS AND REMBER THE DEVIL WILL GIVE YOU STUFF TOO AND YOU THINK THAT YOU ARE BLESS SO STOP LOOK AT STUFF CAUSE WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH YOU YOU HAVE ARE YOU FEEDING THE HUNGER , HELPING SOME ESLE OUT ARE BEEN LIKE THE RICH FOOL. NO PASTOR/DEC/OR CHURCH SHOULD PIMP ITS MEMBER