Christianity or Bust

I’m really struggling to read John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress (original edition).

Anyway, Christian Audio is offering free copies of this book in MP3 format this month here.

Someone told me that the head pastor at his new church preached about money again last night. That was no surprise. The guy is the most popular Word of Faith preacher in the Southern Hemisphere. What really amazed me was that he actually told people to pull back on their giving and not to give ’til it hurts!! (I can’t confirm that because I wasn’t there.)

My first question to my friend was “Have they developed a new found sense of economic rationalism?” Maybe he’s actually seen what’s happened to the area around his church: mortgage stress, rising crime (including domestic violence and murder). (Note: If you read the article, the Liberal Minister suggests that the problem is inadequate police.)

Have those people been giving beyond their means and tithes because they believed in some fool’s preaching? Now is the fool is hedging his bets by telling people to stop giving or just stopped believing that everyone is going to get rich. I guess in the end, at least one person will still have a mansion to go home to at night when everyone else’s homes are sold in foreclosures.