TODAY'S CHRISTIANITY IN THE WORLD

[jossiel]

I totally agree with you on this. Churches of nowadays only recognize “active church members” i.e those who pay their tithes and offering everytime.

It adds pride to the members, I've known a person that told a friend of ours that he would love to attend to a church that would recognize his tithes and offerings.

He wants to see his name on their bulletin board with the amount he has given. And if the church he attended didn't have that sort of info on where the tithes and offerings goes, he won't give there but instead to the other church that has that kind of recognition although he attends there.

[Yungphash]

I totally agree with you on this. Churches of nowadays only recognize “active church members” i.e those who pay their tithes and offering everytime.

He wants to see his name on their bulletin board with the amount he has given. And if the church he attended didn't have that sort of info on where the tithes and offerings goes, he won't give there but instead to the other church that has that kind of recognition although he attends there.

Religion is now a business in Africa, most especially here in Nigeria. You will always see churches in every 5-10 minutes walk.
I was listening to a sermon on radio yesterday and the preacher was saying that it's very bad for a church member to be using 4 cars while his pastors has none. I don't know why some men of God always feel entitled to part of people's wealth. They are adding to the economic crisis by extorting money from their church members. Because they know that once they cook up a story like “buy this anointing oil, it will make your dreams come true”, that's when you see them auctioning for the anointing oil. The highest bidder gets the offer.

[okala]

Religion is one of the world greatest problem today and our religious leaders have contributed to this problems with they selfish desire for wealth rather then helping the people spiritual life's and also causing separation between different religions in the world there by causing war and crisis in the world today. In fact most of the spiritual leaders take the money from they poor congregation to build schools the children of those poor members can not afford the money to attend.

[omonuyak]

It seems religious segregation is not helping the progress of the world. Many  leaders claim to be Christians but it's funny how greedy they are in reality. Some churches are also making matters worse. For instance some churches in the major cities are obviously for the rich in society only, from all intentions and indications, the less privileged are not welcomed. Honestly, If you don't have money, you are seen as a nuisance in those kind of churches believed to be for the elite in the society.  I thought christianity is about love. 

Those Church practicing that are not the church of Christ.  Many of this religion organizations are just bearing Christian but there are not.  Christianity is about love,  justice, mercy and good deed and most of the big churches we do hear there names has no of this.

[BADecker]

It seems religious segregation is not helping the progress of the world. Many  leaders claim to be Christians but it's funny how greedy they are in reality. Some churches are also making matters worse. For instance some churches in the major cities are obviously for the rich in society only, from all intentions and indications, the less privileged are not welcomed. Honestly, If you don't have money, you are seen as a nuisance in those kind of churches believed to be for the elite in the society.  I thought christianity is about love. 

Those Church practicing that are not the church of Christ.  Many of this religion organizations are just bearing Christian but there are not.  Christianity is about love,  justice, mercy and good deed and most of the big churches we do hear there names has no of this.

You forgot the biggest thing that Christianity is all about. It's the saving of souls for life in Heaven following the judgment. Salvation includes those other things, but they are of lesser importance than salvation.

[jossiel]

I totally agree with you on this. Churches of nowadays only recognize “active church members” i.e those who pay their tithes and offering everytime.

He wants to see his name on their bulletin board with the amount he has given. And if the church he attended didn't have that sort of info on where the tithes and offerings goes, he won't give there but instead to the other church that has that kind of recognition although he attends there.

Religion is now a business in Africa, most especially here in Nigeria. You will always see churches in every 5-10 minutes walk.
I was listening to a sermon on radio yesterday and the preacher was saying that it's very bad for a church member to be using 4 cars while his pastors has none. I don't know why some men of God always feel entitled to part of people's wealth. They are adding to the economic crisis by extorting money from their church members. Because they know that once they cook up a story like “buy this anointing oil, it will make your dreams come true”, that's when you see them auctioning for the anointing oil. The highest bidder gets the offer.

Sad to hear about that, I've known pastors and preachers who doesn't even preach those words.

Like what they are preaching, they are also practicing faith. As they've said, God will provide and will certainly do the same thing for them but without standing in the pulpit and telling that it is convenient for them to have cars to preach to other places. There's always a way to commute to preach the gospel but that's really a clear thing that we can understand what that pastor want.

With that annointing oil, I already seen one like that before in my country and it's really pure business.

[BADecker]

The Christian persecution is starting all over again. Time for Christians to set up their own means of doing business.


Baptist Pastor Says Bank of America Shut Down All Of His Church's Bank Accounts

Pastor Steven Anderson of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona said Monday on YouTube that Bank of America shut down all the bank accounts of his church.

“This morning, I found out that Bank of America shut down all of our bank accounts froze our accounts without notice and we can’t even get our money out,” Anderson said on YouTube. “We can’t even walk into the bank and withdraw our money they just froze everything, shut everything down.”

“They’re supposedly going to send us a cashier’s check in like two weeks for all the money that was in our church bank account but in the meantime they just took all our money away,” Anderson said.

Anderson has attracted controversy over the years due to his fundamentalist preachings on homosexuality.

Go to Hell, Bank of America!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=B5R3yQqDd9Q

[Daniel91]

Religion is one of the world greatest problem today and our religious leaders have contributed to this problems with they selfish desire for wealth rather then helping the people spiritual life's and also causing separation between different religions in the world there by causing war and crisis in the world today. In fact most of the spiritual leaders take the money from they poor congregation to build schools the children of those poor members can not afford the money to attend.

We have many different people in the world.
Some of them are good and some are bad.
So, in the same way, you can't say that all religious people or pastors are good or all of them are bad.
You should judge each individual based on his/her actions, not based on concepts and prejudices.
Yes, we have corruption in the church and many other problems but also we have many great priests who are sacrificing helping poor and sick in Africa for example, volunteering in the humanitarian organizations, hospitals etc.
Also, through their faith and church service they are giving hope and life to the many people.
This is not a simple story and has a lot of different layers.