Selling tickets to hear "me" preach!
The latest and greatest mega church and minister in my city tours America, selling tickets for $10.00 to spend "An Evening with ________." A regular "worship service" is conducted.
What are your thoughts re charging to enter a worship service? Of course, offerings and contributions for the evening would equal or surpass ticket sales (possibly), but the practice is what I am questioning. Perhaps I should come up to date.
Do you prefer ticket sales to worship God or should tithes and offerings continue as instructed in God's Word?
Bobbye
Selling tickets to hear "me" preach!
Amen, Phil!
"Grace, grace! God's grace! FREELY GIVEN TO "WHOSOEVER WILL!"
The sad part of reference re my post is that some of the $10.00 tickets are going for $100.00 on E-Bay. Sadder yet, it is the youth who are being influenced by this pseudo "gospel" (if it can be called "gospel"). Larry King and other major networks can't promote this fellow fast enough; yet it is the naive; the scripturally unlearned, and those who are seeking truth who are being deceived. God forbid! (His $47M best-seller on the N.Y. Times was modeled after Covey's "Seven Steps of Successful... " NOT ONE EDITOR, PUBLISHER, OR NEWS MEDIA CAUGHT THE PARALLEL! Proof that America is being lulled to sleep by the media who claim to "know," yet haven't a clue as to truth -- whether it be Biblical or otherwise.
Thanks, Phil (as well as Tony), for great insight re this charade!
Bobbye
Tickets to hear "preacher"
No one should have to buy a ticket to hear a minister of the Gospel. We are to give freely with a cheerful heart with Christian love. Money and riches will not buy us a ticket to heaven, only though the recognition and acceptance of the shed blood of Jesus for our sins, our debt is paid, YES, YES!
Those who know the Truth and do not teach it will surely face a reckoning day like no other. Much more is expected of those who teach and preach that they should not lead others astray.
Many evangelistic meetings, revivals and such I have attended in the past in large colisieums, auditoriums, large churches, small churches and tents and have never bought a "ticket". Love offerings have been taken up for the speaker and musicians for traveling expenses and lodging.
This situation concerning the "preacher' (speaker) of whom you write is questionable as he was most likely signing his books of which these folks had already bought or were buying at the meeting. I really have a problem with the message that he brings on TV.
Bless you,
MaggieB
How much is the preaching today?
John Wesley and George Whitgift, to whom we are indebted for Methodism, preached in the open air. Standing on the stone walls of fielda and steps, on tubs and benches, they preached to the people who did not go to church.
At times they would preach in chapels that were opened to them by sympathetic clergy, but they did not charge any fee, and I doubt if any preacher today, however flamboyant, can reach the sublime heights and inspired eloquence of these.
It is shameful that men should make a business of preaching God's Word.
MORGANITE
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Tickets to hear "me" preach!
Maggie, it's great to have you on Board! Phil, Stony, and I welcome you! ( I speak for them without their permission, but they'll forgive me and love me in the Lord in spite of.. LOL)
Fred, Stony, Maggie, and Phil: NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO PAY TO HEAR THE GOSPEL! ALSO, WHAT ABOUT "SPENDING ANY EVENING WITH JESUS" RATHER THAN JOEL?????
Phil, I'll get to the "Seven Steps..." when I get a few minutes at the end of this week. IF YOU'D LIKE, PLEASE START A NEW THREAD RE "THE BOOK!"
Be blessed, all of you!
Bobbye