T.D. Jakes steps down from Potter's House, son in law and daughter take over

[Rick Fox at UNC]

Why do you guys follow these hucksters and grifters?

Are you that desperate for something?

 

[CopiousX]

I mean the

I mean they don't have jobs and they live off people telling them it's a blessing to give them their hard earned money.

I'd like to see preaching become a volunteer profession to truly encompass the Christian spirit. Let's see how fast that doesn't shake lose all the leeches in religion

Might backfire like state politics and nonprofits where low or nonexistent salries are compensated for by kick backs.

In my state and most states in the union, most of the state reps and state senators are are ubermillionaires because the pay for state govt is so low for normal people with expenses. obviously, these rich guys are unsavory and use their new found influence to become even more wealthy by leeching govt contracts for themselves and their cronies.


You see something very similar at nonprofits, where the contracts to do good deeds like money for food banks, disaster relief, building villages, etc is syphoned out. So despite executive salaries being low for image's sake, the nonprofit administrators are eating good.


in a church lens, this would be horrible at the megachurch scale where the contract to clean the tabernnacle or cater or do security or recieve charitable donations is in the millions. If pastor man gets only $0 or a moderate sum like $40k, he will be incredibly tempted to start selling these contracts or taking kickbacks from charitable activity.

 

[Ziggiy]

Is this a church or a family business?

You know the answer

 

[tuckgod]

Baptizing someone in the name of an ungodly person doesn't seem probable to me. The New Testament is clear that Jesus is God (Titus 2:13 for example). The Spirit is God
And the Father is God.

2nd, most scholars attribute thr Gospel of Matthew to be written by

Spoiler: Spoiler

Matthew

Can you provide sources where scholars say it's Paul? And ok on the rest.

Now you’re being purposely obtuse or stupid like most Bible thumpers when confronted with the truth.

 

[tuckgod]

Baptizing someone in the name of an ungodly person doesn't seem probable to me. The New Testament is clear that Jesus is God (Titus 2:13 for example). The Spirit is God
And the Father is God.

2nd, most scholars attribute thr Gospel of Matthew to be written by

Spoiler: Spoiler

Matthew

Can you provide sources where scholars say it's Paul? And ok on the rest.

Paul wrote Matthew

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Son-in-law about to take up the scandal mantel

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

Show me just one passage in the entire bible, Old and New Testament, where a so called Holy trinity is mentioned in scripture as the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost?

The only time a trinity is mentioned in the entire thing is in one line of John, that speaks to the Father, The Word, and the Spirit being one and witnesses in Heaven.

Get em OG.... Where is the trinity in this?

 

[valet]

Paul wrote Matthew

Wheres the evidence of that? I can make the claim Rakim wrote Illmatic. But nobody would believe that unless I provided some evidence.

 

[TEH]

The church has a board of directors?

These churches are just a mix of business corporations and crown royalty shyt. When the king or queen dies, the next Prince or Princess in line becomes the king or queen.

All churches do

They call it different things sometimes but how else would you run a church

I can tell your pagan ass is no where near a church on Sunday

 

[valet]

Now you’re being purposely obtuse or stupid like most Bible thumpers when confronted with the truth.

You got it bro

 

[Da King]

Son in law looking like and

 

[International Playa]

Daughter is a good preacher, listened to few of her sermons.

Son-in-law looks like a scam artist, ready to do money fraud

 

[tuckgod]

Get em OG.... Where is the trinity in this?

It’s all tricknology brother.

Christ is (in) the head of everything but it’s not a man or only child of the Father.

Its your pineal gland blessed by the CSF oils in your brain when you reach enlightened states of being.

Saul was tasked with creating a system that tethered the citizens of Rome to the state spiritually.

You had Pagans and Israelites throughout the empire that they had to figure out a way to make them all bow to Caesar as their Lord and Master, so they made a spiritual one that was easier to spread and made everyone happy named Yah/Zeus (Jesus).

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

It’s all tricknology brother.

Christ is (in) the head of everything but it’s not a man or only child of the Father.

Its your pineal gland blessed by the CSF oils in your brain when you reach enlightened states of being.

I'm with you on the trinity is BS, but that's where i draw the line lol

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Might backfire like state politics and nonprofits where low or nonexistent salries are compensated for by kick backs.

In my state and most states in the union, most of the state reps and state senators are are ubermillionaires because the pay for state govt is so low for normal people with expenses. obviously, these rich guys are unsavory and use their new found influence to become even more wealthy by leeching govt contracts for themselves and their cronies.


You see something very similar at nonprofits, where the contracts to do good deeds like money for food banks, disaster relief, building villages, etc is syphoned out. So despite executive salaries being low for image's sake, the nonprofit administrators are eating good.


in a church lens, this would be horrible at the megachurch scale where the contract to clean the tabernnacle or cater or do security or recieve charitable donations is in the millions. If pastor man gets only $0 or a moderate sum like $40k, he will be incredibly tempted to start selling these contracts or taking kickbacks from charitable activity.

If the rich members of the congregation want to foot in more than 10% it's not like they can bribe God. Let them go ahead. It would just mean that preachers then get their lions share from fewer sources