MegaChurch Foreclosures: Are They The Devil’s Fault? [ Earl Paulk/Thomas Weeks/Paula White]
Posted by Swarna Jha on November 4, 2009
15 November 2008
MegaChurch Foreclosures: Are They The Devil’s Fault?
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Swarna Jha said
MEMBERS OF MEGA-CHURCH EXPOSES THE SCAMS!!! (part 1)
The ‘LA Times’ reports Creflo A. Dollar, senior pastor of World Changers Church International, preaches that God will reward his faithful with material riches. It is a gospel that has won the flamboyant, demon-possessed preacher a 25,000-strong congregation — and a Rolls-Royce, a multimillion-dollar mansion and a private Gulfstream III jet. Now a Senate committee is investigating whether Dollar and leaders of several other mega-churches have illegally used donations to fund opulent lifestyles. Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) has sent letters to six high-profile mega-churches, including Dollar’s in College Park, Ga., requesting that they hand over records of salaries, expense accounts, credit cards, cars and airplanes.’ Jesus came into the city of Jerusalem on a donkey,’ Grassley said in a telephone interview. ‘Do these ministers really need Bentleys and Rolls-Royces to spread the Gospel?’ Grassley has some other specific concerns. For example, he wants Paula and Randy White, pastors of the Without Walls International Church in Tampa, Fla., to document thier tax-exempt cosmetic surgery. And he wants Joyce Meyer, who runs Joyce Meyer Ministries from Fenton, Mo., to explain the tax-exempt purpose of a $23,000 ‘commode with marble top.’ Next we will look at a report documenting how the megachurches and pastorpreneurs like Bill Hybels, Rick Warren and Joel Osteen are fleecing the flock’ by offering a luke-warm gospel, giant screen TV’s, rock music & plenty of entertainment.
Mega-churches & The Greedy Hirelings in Their Pulpits Part1
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Joseph Johnson: Megachurches
Swarna Jha said
November 12, 2009
How Will We Address the Problem of the Church in Decline?
Yesterday I wrote about the decline of churches in America. The facts are clear. Most churches are losing member faster than they are gaining. Those church groups that are not losing members are flat-lined, or barely growing at all. The percentage of growth, in the most spiritually virile groups, is in decline.
All of this underscores what many of us have seen coming for the last decade plus. We have entered what many think is the first stage of the long term breakup of Christendom. This appears to have begun in the 1990s. The evidence is now beginning to show us when it began. But the evidence does not clearly tell us why it began thus the conclusion as to what happened is unclear. And what we should do in the face of this tragic loss is not clear at all. Groups of all sorts offer solutions and advance ideas for how we should proceed in a “new world” context.
My conclusion is rather simple, but I think rather profound in its own way. We must make faithful disciples in a radically new world. The way we evangelize, make disciples and build churches has to change. To not question all of this is unwise and will lead to even greater waste of resource and energy. Most of all it will lead to fewer and fewer followers of Christ with a distinct Christian worldview and lifestyle.
The evidence is now obvious—the culture around us has dramatically changed. The moral and social foundations have crumbled. Whatever awareness we had of God’s kingdom in our midst has been all but lost. Older Christians have generally settled for business as usual while things decline around them. And the generation born since the late 1970s is leaving the church in record numbers. This drop-off in church attendance is so sharp that even optimists put the church attendance of Gen-X at less than 10%. (The national average is still somewhere around 32-35%.)
Churches are closing and closing fast. Yesterday, I read about five Catholic churches without services and priests in Peoria, Illinois. What makes this so staggering is that Peoria is middle-America and a diocese that has produced a large number of priests historically. It is now undergoing serious shortage and decline. Even evangelical mega-churches are in trouble in some places in Chicago. I know of several in my immediate area that have declined by as much as 50% over the past five years. Others are scrambling to pay their mortgage or keep their staff, some of which is attributable to the economic problems. But this is all more than an economic shift. From George Barna’s polling to the more reputable Pew Research data the news is still pretty much the same. Pew sees a more robust practice of faith than Barna but both track the decline I speak of.
I said that my solution was rather simple. It is. I think we have disobeyed Christ so completely that this growing loss is the result of divine judgment rooted in massive disobedience. To put this simply we were afforded a long-term luxury because the traditions of faith and church practice were so deep in America’s public soul. This is no more. After a brief spike upwards, following World War II, the decline began slowly in the 1970s. It grew in the 1980s and became a trend in the 1990s. Now it is a settled fact and there is nothing, short of a full-scale spiritual awakening, that would slow it down right now.
I believe the solution lies in recovering the truly biblical practice of making disciples. We must do more than draw people, get decisions, conduct campaigns. (All have their place but they are not working in this present post-Christendom context!) We must re-evangelize the church. Multitudes of our own people are not mature Christ-followers at all. They are content to attend church but they have little or no part in the kingdom from day-to-day. They have no sense of mission, no divine calling that makes them excited to face each day for the glory of Christ.
Second, we must encourage the unity of Christians and churches in a Spirit-given reality that transcends our tribes and sects. We must stop attacking one another and start showing the world that we love one another.
http://johnharmstrong.typepad.com/john_h_armstrong_/2009/11/how-will-we-address-the-problem-of-the-church-in-decline.html
Swarna Jha said
Misuse of Church donations.
05 May 2007
Mega-Churches are they a rip-off?
Megachurch
22 April 2007
http://OldTruth.com/Video See link above for more videos. This video asks: What’s filling the pews and keeps people coming back for more? Meaty preaching, biblical teaching, or . . . entertainment?
http://OldTruth.com/Video
See link above for more videos.
This video asks: What’s filling the pews and keeps people coming back for more? Meaty preaching, biblical teaching, or . . . entertainment?
Tags: megachurch seeker sensitive entertainment
Swarna Jha said
Marketing God Like Beer and Sports Cars08 October 2007
You-know-what sells sports cars and beer but who would have thought that churches would resort to “selling God” using the same marketing ploy. Once again it’s the “what can God do for you” approach to getting people to fill the pews. Today’s sermons are all about helping you with your marriage, pleasure, job, family, investments. Gone are the centuries of Christianity in which churches taught about the character of God and the worship of him. If an approach pragmatically gets people in the pews and is thought to enhance evangelism, well then that’s all that matters today.
Listen in this CNN segment of the video as the pastor essentially says “IF I’ve offended you then I’m sorry, but I’d do it again in a heart beat, therefore I’m not really sorry after all”.
The pastor whose church mocked the community with the ‘rap remix’ often calls Christians who disagree with his methods ‘Pharisee’ and claims that everyone who complained about his racy postcards were more of the same. How does he know that they are Christians that he’s offended? as opposed to common folk who just as readily don’t want their small children watching a R-rated movie than see his church’s postcards. Some perhaps are Roman Catholics who externally care about morality and mention God in their complaints. All of these people need OUTREACH not a church who mocks them.
Unfortunately these types of sermons have become the norm in today’s seeker centered churches, and the church in the video is far from alone in their approach.
Swarna Jha said
11 November 2009
Woe to the Megachurches of Men And Woe to This Nation new version
http://trumpetcallofgodonli... [excerpt] Thus says The Lord: “No more shall My people call out My name, and then run after men and seek vain glory wrought in the churches. No more shall they run a…
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[excerpt] Thus says The Lord:
“No more shall My people call out My name, and then run after men and seek vain glory wrought in the churches. No more shall they run after vain glory… Vanity! For they have done a detestable thing, even greedily in My sight… Lo, I have beheld their hearts. And what do I see?… Vanities on top of vanities!… Vain deceits! Woe to the churches of men, built atop vanities, greed and vain glories… Woe to them! For they shall be the first to be torn down… they shall be brought down, they shall no more stand.
Look, sons and daughters, what do you see amongst these churches built up of men? What do you see, beloved? What have they done to My name?… Woe to these people of excess. They build great churches of brick and wood, yet the poor cry at the doors, and the cause of the widow and the fatherless goes unheard… Only the neighing and writhing of these lost sheep is before their faces!”
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10 July 2008
Thus Says the Lord God Against The Megachurches of Men! http://www.TrumpetCallofGod...
Thus Says the Lord God Against The Megachurches of Men!
http://www.TrumpetCallofGod...
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WOE TO THE MEGACHURCHES! (Part 1)
20 July 2008
WOE TO THE MEGACHURCHES! (PART 2)
Thus Says the Lord to this generation. ~ http://www.TrumpetCallofGod...