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you can't make this stuff up. well yes you can apparently
Televangelist Paula White, chairwoman of Trump's evangelical advisory committee and preacher of the prosperity gospel, warns that those who don't make donations to her ministries face "consequences" from God.
If you think that sounds like a divine extortion scheme, you're not far off. Prosperity gospel preachers teach that to become wealthy, you must give them money, which they describe as a "seed offering."
White explains "first fruits" thusly:
"January is the beginning of a new year for us in the Western world. Let us give to God what belongs to him: the first hours of our day, the first month of the year, the first of our increase, the first in every area of our life. It's devoted.... The principle of first fruits is that when you give God the first, he governs the rest and redeems."
Apparently those "firsts" also include the first month of your salary.
Those who do give will be rewarded with "amazing opportunity, blessing, favor and divine order for your life," White says.
Ah, but those who aren't generous, "whether through ignorance or direct disobedience," will face "consequences."
She doesn't spell out what those consequences will be, but the implication is they won't be good.
http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Trump-s-spiritual-adviser-Send-me-your-Jan-12485105.php
you can't make this stuff up. well yes you can apparently
Televangelist Paula White, chairwoman of Trump's evangelical advisory committee and preacher of the prosperity gospel, warns that those who don't make donations to her ministries face "consequences" from God.
If you think that sounds like a divine extortion scheme, you're not far off. Prosperity gospel preachers teach that to become wealthy, you must give them money, which they describe as a "seed offering."
White explains "first fruits" thusly:
"January is the beginning of a new year for us in the Western world. Let us give to God what belongs to him: the first hours of our day, the first month of the year, the first of our increase, the first in every area of our life. It's devoted.... The principle of first fruits is that when you give God the first, he governs the rest and redeems."
Apparently those "firsts" also include the first month of your salary.
Those who do give will be rewarded with "amazing opportunity, blessing, favor and divine order for your life," White says.
Ah, but those who aren't generous, "whether through ignorance or direct disobedience," will face "consequences."
She doesn't spell out what those consequences will be, but the implication is they won't be good.
http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Trump-s-spiritual-adviser-Send-me-your-Jan-12485105.php
