Recently, the mini-sermons given at offering collection time have begun to annoy me.
They seeming to always focus on miraculous wealth transfer that ministers experience when they give to one another. The message to the congregation is that when you transfer wealth to me, God will make others transfer wealth to you, and this is preached as an immutable law, illustrated by ministerial experience.
I don't suppose it would occur to clergy that God's usual way is hard work and wealth creation, instead of wealth transfer?
Now I know a good man who has turned his life around, placing hope in God as Savior, who is standing on this Gospel of Wealth Transfer, expecting God to do it for him too. Maybe God will, and hallelujah if He does; maybe God won't. If God doesn't stand behind the Gospel of Wealth Transfer preached by Localchurch clergy, this soul will blame God. God should not suffer disrepute because of bad doctrine promulgated by the self-promoting.
God's way is work; God's way is wealth creation, in general. Business is a line of doctrine which is unfamiliar to churchmen, but, not the Bible. We need our "men of God" in the work world--perhaps with calloused hands or dirty nails--to insert some teaching here.
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1 comment:
On further thought, I realize that I'm a believer in the doctrine of wealth transfer, as taught in the law, the prophets, and the gospels. I think the thing that rubs me the wrong way about offering sermonettes is the severe imbalance. Wealth transfer has its place in history and in hope, but so does wealth creation - which is never taught (by Christians).
Any truth taken out of context or balance can become a heresy. And this is an instance where that happens.
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