Without Defect! Not All Offerings Are Acceptable
What is tithe? What is offerings? Do we give gross or net? If the church accepts my giving, does it mean God has also accepted it? What would cause giving to be rejected?
Sound teaching, hard passages, prophecy, and errors to avoid.
What is tithe? What is offerings? Do we give gross or net? If the church accepts my giving, does it mean God has also accepted it? What would cause giving to be rejected?
Creation took place because God wanted. Everything exists and is alive because God wants. The entire universe runs and operates as God wants and because God wants. What God wants is God’s will. We are because God wants. We exist because God wants. Because God wants…
What we are doing is what others were eternally punished for. Exactly how we are conducting ourselves, is how those who were eternally punished, were conducting themselves. Why haven’t we been punished? For this very reason, others were eternally punished!
God is love. Not love as we may be limited to know. While God is love, we worship God not love. Love and God cannot be separated, yet we worship God not love. While God is eternal, we worship God and not eternity. God is love but love is not God. It is impossible to separate what love is from who God is. This is love in its highest form that the human mind will forever study and progressively comprehend but never fully comprehend. With this revelation of love and its association with God, indeed love is underrated!
Knowing has made a difference. Knowing has placed some expectations on us. Knowing means we are now required to act according to what we know. You can’t undo knowing. Once you know, it is too late to unknow(sic) what you now know. If we can’t act on what we know, it is better if we didn’t know!
Someone has said we can’t know God the way He knows us. We can’t know God the way we know ourselves. We can’t know God the way we know others. We can’t know God the way others know us.
In a partnership, all members are obliged to work in the interest of the partnership. Individual perceptions and wishes are surrendered to the common good. If what you want as an individual contradicts the interests of the entire partnership, you are expected to surrender your position.
This is a good explanation why the message directed to pastors only is actually a whole church issue. It is said to pastors and all of us as well. The world is in dire need of good pastors. This will make you a good pastor!
Is anxiety good? Would you be comfortable if you spend your life being anxious? Does anxiety produce better decisions? If you talk to people and you leave them anxious have you succeeded? Is it something to be proud of? The Bible warns against anxiety causing teachings…