Comments on: Evangelical discomfort with prosperity

By: bonsoir

bonsoir — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:04:40 +0000

Hey Friend,
are u for real?
linking easy grace?what is easy? and supernatural tithing to prosperity?
i don’t know u….yet.But don work too much on ur own assumptions….makes an ass out of u n me( and everyone else).

Cheers!

By: kenny

kenny — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:23:57 +0000

Thanks for the affirmation,Tony.

By: tony siew

tony siew — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:18:45 +0000

Hi Kenny, your blogpost is sound, reasonable and biblical. Thanks for your insight. If you don’t mind, I will use your “Pest” test in my sermon this Sunday.

By: observer

observer — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:29:09 +0000

Christianity has become a dualism of wanting denial and an eternal struggle(or justification) between trying to be a mother teresa who gets down and dirty with slumdogs or a benny hinn bestowed with “out of reach of most decent working class folks” mansion and a pte jet to chapter one from the toilet to the finest kopitiam in town.

By: s

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:54:10 +0000

wow, i have 2 Corinthians 9:8 pinned up on my office desk, thanks for reminding

yes i agree with you. God wants to bless us in all areas of our live including material blessings. This is not wrong, but we need to have the wisdom to understand that by blessing us with money/possessions, it’s to allow us to have the resources to bless others, not to be using them as a means to glorify our own success. Money should never become something of greater importance than God. When we learn to part with money, we gain the spirit of generosity and kindness and God will bless us even more abundantly. The principle of tithing that always sticks into my head is this “if you can;t even part with 10% of your income, how can God entrust you with the 100 or 1000-fold blessings that He’s waiting to give you”?

By: blogpestor

blogpestor — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:50:12 +0000

i have developed a test too.

1) the key is to PAINT a different christ. this christ must wear branded clothings and employs personal accountant to justify your claim to prosperity
2) preach EASY grace to target guilt ridden souls. do you know of anyone who does no wrong in life? the more sensitive the soul, the more generous he/she is.
3) capture your audience with SUPERNATURAL Promises. never mind you can’t prove it so long as you can fire someone’s imagination.
4) link TITHING to love and offerings/blessings. there is no greater love than sacrificial love. how can you shut your wallet to someone who died for you?

so P.E.S.T = Paint your way to Easy Supernatural Tithing = prosperity