Pastor Shuts Down His Church After Winning About $140,000 In Sports Betting..

[btc_angela]

I personally think that religion is the smartest scam ever invented. Yes, there might be proof certain individuals existed, but the bs miracles invented I don't really think have been proven.

Shame on this preacher for taking advantage of people so that he didn't have to get a real job.

In a nutshell yeah, the church itself, I mean we have seen a lot of religious figures enriching themselves in the past, specially those tele-evangelist in the 90's and up to this day are doing the same old and effective trick.

At least their community not know what kind of pastor they got, so instead of the pastor scamming them, his true colors is being revealed because he had won that money and wanted to leave as soon as possible, there is no victim here but the pastor himself. Hopefully their community will find a new pastor that is different and will truly be their servant

[mamesso]

God has shown his power by letting David Ochieng win $140,000 through sports betting. Congregations who have listened to his sermons always consider David Ochieng sincerity to lead him to the right path. It turns out that what has been done so far is only based on money, not sincerity.
What Ochieng did would be different from other people if they won the same amount of money, they would continue their business and career because the opportunity to win $140,000 didn't come once every month.

[TitanGEL]

Money is really an amplifier to the real personality and characteristic of a certain person. When pastor won $140,000, his greed shows up. It only means that the reason why he built the church is not because of his passion to teach others about religion and faith to God but because of his greed to earn money from church. There's a documentary on how a lot of people are earning huge amount of money by creating a church or creating a new religion. For me what he did is very wrong and it only proves that he is a fake pastor who focusing on earning money than to teach other people.

Instead of being a role model to his churchmates, he became a bad model and for sure his reputation has been tarnished because of what he did. He is now blinded by greed and he only showing to his people that he has bad attitude. Gambling is not actually bad, it also amplifies what personality that you have. Make sure that we have good personality before we do gambling for us to not be blinded by greed like what happened to the pastor.

[Rruchi man]

As a business or as a career person who is also into gambling/betting, would you quit your current business or career if you won the same amount of money from gambling/betting?

I do business, If I win that amount of money, I will invest in the business I do, and get more machines, a better space and even consider selling raw material for the business I do so that other people who the same business as I will come to buy materials from me. I can choose to start up another thing or relocate to another place for safety, but I will not just close up my business.

For people who quit the job or stop their businesses, they probably did not have long term plans for their businesses while others did not love their career or business, but were just using it to pass time and survive like the pastor was running a church business because he knows how religious some Africans can be.

[virasisog]

Not all church servants including Pastors are well committed to their callings. We had a pastor before whom we discovered that he's into drugs and illegal activities. Due to drug addiction, he has sold all the church properties and left the church.
Some of them are doing church leadership for money and see it as a source of income.
That Pastor who has won that amount have shown his real color and I'm sure that he will still learn his lesson in the future. He didn't pactice what he preached.

[Zlantann]

The above affirms to the fact that many, are into what they do, not because they love it, or because its their calling, but because of the money they get to make from it, just imagine how many years this pastor have deceived his church members into believing he was genuinely called by God to serve as a pastor..

My country has the highest number of churches in the world. Most of these religious institutions preach about materialism which serves as a means of compelling the worshipers to donate money so that they can have materialistic rewards from God. Many of these religious heads intention is just to get financial gains.

Now my question is, As a business or as a career person who is also into gambling/betting, would you quit your current business or career if you won the same amount of money from gambling/betting?
Be sincere and state your reasons for your decision..

I have never been motivated by money. Money is not everything. I am fulfilled when my actions change the lives of my community positively. I enjoy my profession because it gives me the privileged of touching the lives of people in the community. I have had opportunities to leave my current field for other high paying jobs but I rejected these offers because they wouldn't give me satisfaction and fulfilment. Even if I win $1million dollars I will remain in my job if my security is guaranteed.

[coin-investor]

Unfortunately the members are late to see that they are being used by that pastor, the pastor has no conscience and he is doing this for money and power, he is greedy instead of sharing his winnign to his members he prefers to shutdown the church and kept the money to himself, there's a karma on this this kind of character will pay in the future and he will be punish.
This is not an isolated tory there's a lot of stories like his using the church for money and power and people should always check if their pastor has hidden agaenda or he has hidden characted because it wil be exposed later.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Pastor got paid and checked out 

If his calling isn’t real then it’s a good thing for his people that he’s not there any more and I guess a good thing fir him as $140,000 is a lot of money where he is from. I wish him luck with his new life and hopefully the Church gets a new more committed Pastor.

$140,000 is a nice amount but it wouldn’t do much for me that I don’t already have. I was blessed to get into bitcoin early and the rest is history.

[Davidvictorson]

A Ugandan Pastor by the name, David Ochieng is said to have shut down his church after winning money equivalent to about $140,000 through sports betting..

The church members came for their normal weekly services and were shocked to discovered that the entire place were locked, and the pastor no where to be found, the pastor was later contacted, and he confessed that he become a pastor out of greed and not because God called him ...

I read this story a day ago and I was shocked by the act of the so-called pastor. This is the reason why I call on the government to tax churches and religious houses or places of worship so as to curb this unprofessionals and charlatans who claim to be pastors/ religious leaders stealing from unsuspecting members.

Now my question is, As a business or as a career person who is also into gambling/betting, would you quit your current business or career if you won the same amount of money from gambling/betting?

The OP's question calls for a deeper reflection and introspection of our career and professional life. If I hate the job that I do so much that I despise going there every day and then I was lucky to win a huge amount of money from one of my bets, the next day I would hand in my resignation letter. However, the work I currently do has a lot of career prospects and I love it. So, if I win a huge amount of money, I will go ahead to start my own firm. People who I would employ would be those in the same field as me. I already have a business plan, I'll consider the money from the win as a way of raising funds.

[Agbe]

That pastor has sin against God and man. He sins against God by deceiving the people that he is a true pastor at the initial time, he sins against God by using the name of the Lord in vain and he sins against God by using the tithes and offerings to play bet or gamble.
And in the other hand, he sins against Man by using the church as a cover up as good man of God, he sins against Man by using their tithes and offerings to play gamble. And now that he has confessed, God has mercy in him. That is very bad ending of his Christian race. It is a poor finishing. Some might say God knows how to feed his people, yes I agreed but not in the world way, I know that Christians play gamble but those Christians are not born again Christians. Real Christians would never play gamble.

[uneng]

Now my question is, As a business or as a career person who is also into gambling/betting, would you quit your current business or career if you won the same amount of money from gambling/betting?
Be sincere and state your reasons for your decision..

I would quite my current business or career only if I didn't like working on that. That is, if I were involved on the job just for financial reasons. Otherwise I would just decrease the workload to enjoy the profit made through gambling travelling and doing other hobby activities with people I like being together.

I say this because it's important to have an occupation in life, doesn't matter how wealthy you are. It's not unsual to see rich people living without pleasure or a purpose of existence, as ironically all they have is money and nothing else, leading to a feeling of inner emptiness.

Money is important in many aspects of our physical life, more related to comfort and ease, but it's not sufficient to supply most of our mental, emotional demands.

[bitbollo]

today I was reading a fact something like "About 87% of win a big cash prize, after a few years they are poorer than before!"
I have no idea where they got this data from, but maybe I would have suggested it to the pastor.
but in general usually when you get these big wins it's always better to keep a low profile continue working as before etc etc etc
for sure this is not an amount "life changing" in a western country....

[Doell]

Now my question is, As a business or as a career person who is also into gambling/betting, would you quit your current business or career if you won the same amount of money from gambling/betting?
Be sincere and state your reasons for your decision..

No, it's better to grow my career/business with this money I earn from gambling. That can make my future even brighter, because if I go out and continue to gambling it's not good sir. I mean this year we won a lot but that's not going to happen in the next year so for me better don't leave career/business, gambling just for fun.

[348Judah]

To me such a man is not possibly called into the ministry he's into because it is believed that many churches today were making business out of the establishment, winning a particular amount that is so big doesn't mean that will be enough for him to live his entire life upon without additional work or income, if i may advise then those going to hiuse of worship should talk heed because many were out for only making business out of it.

[Gozie51]

The above affirms to the fact that many, are into what they do, not because they love it, or because its their calling, but because of the money they get to make from it, just imagine how many years this pastor have deceived his church members into believing he was genuinely called by God to serve as a pastor..

We have seen pastors that have brought different prophecy that are not founded including that they were asked to conduct washing service to ladies in the church so that they could be married and you see such pastors and assistants bathing women in the church premises half naked. We can all access these kinds of pastors stories that we begin to ask their place in the message they say God sent to them. Of course we know that many of them are fake but gullible people fall for their gimmicks.

Now my question is, As a business or as a career person who is also into gambling/betting, would you quit your current business or career if you won the same amount of money from gambling/betting?
Be sincere and state your reasons for your decision..

I don't think that will be reasonable to quit from your foundational source of income because you earned money from gambling except the plan has always been to adjust into a different source of income because no matter how much won, if you don't invest properly then the money is as good as gone some day.

[uche6215]

A Ugandan Pastor by the name, David Ochieng is said to have shut down his church after winning money equivalent to about $140,000 through sports betting..

The church members came for their normal weekly services and were shocked to discovered that the entire place were locked, and the pastor no where to be found, the pastor was later contacted, and he confessed that he become a pastor out of greed and not because God called him ...

This is an interesting news to read, please read the full version of the story here -https://tribuneonlineng.com/pastor-shuts-down-church-after-winning-n100m-sports-bet/

The above affirms to the fact that many, are into what they do, not because they love it, or because its their calling, but because of the money they get to make from it, just imagine how many years this pastor have deceived his church members into believing he was genuinely called by God to serve as a pastor..

Now my question is, As a business or as a career person who is also into gambling/betting, would you quit your current business or career if you won the same amount of money from gambling/betting?
Be sincere and state your reasons for your decision.

If I was to be in the shoes of the pastor, I will never quit my church just like that, I will call another pastor to manage the church so I can travel out.

What the pastor did was total greed and this can make him lose more on betting.

In my vicinity, we call such pastors a ringer pastor, and he should be arrested 👮  for deceiving the church members now that he has endangered the lives of many churchgoers.

[ethereumhunter]

I won't quit a business I've built just because I won a lot of money gambling. I will try to develop my business elsewhere to see how much potential profits I can get. Getting a win from gambling is not why I quit my business because the winnings from gambling will not always come when I gamble. Meanwhile, I can get a profit from the business over and over again, so I think this is more promising than playing gambling.

The priest was very lucky to get that big win. But he better not close his service, keep ministering to other church members, and not tell them that he has won a lot of money from gambling. It would be better for him than closing the service that has helped him so much.

[YOSHIE]

A Ugandan Pastor by the name, David Ochieng is said to have shut down his church after winning money equivalent to about $140,000 through sports betting..

Maybe what pastor David Ochieng did, one side is not good, but that's the reality, money can change anything including faith, he should have shown good behavior for his people, because we know gambling is also prohibited in Catholic and Christian religions.

Maybe it's interesting if other places, we have to make a title (gambling can shake the priest's faith), I consider the gambling betting win for pastor David Ochieng, classified as the biggest win in the sports betting category.

Indeed some things that I have seen gambling can make some priests dark, they think money is everything, that shouldn't be the case, hopefully this doesn't happen again to other priests.

[Cantsay]

I think I saw a similar thread today talking about he same thing and my response was just the same comment you wrote in your Op about the pastor being a fake and only opening his church just because of greed and the goodies that comes with the title.

As for the quitting of job, it depends on the type of job I'm doing if I work in a place where I believe that the pay isn't worth the stress I might quit my job and look for a means to establish my own business, but if it's a very nice job and the pay is good enough I might consider continue working there and at the same time make plan to setup my own business and eventually stop/quit my job. It's only going to take time but eventually I'm going to quit, but the amount won and the type of job will determine how long that will take effect.