feud between benny hinn and joel osteen!

[CoolFinalFan]

bottom line… 2 “men of GOD” shouldn’t arguing, bickering, and so on…but should do the work of the LORD! And they both know better!! Case closed!

 

[AbideWithMe]

It’s all gossip. Paul put gossip on the same level as murder. Let them do what they are doing and forget about it.

***“We have to act in such a way that others will be able to say, when they meet us; this man is a Christian, because he dees not hate, because he is willing to understand, because he is not a fanatic, because he is willing to make sacrifices, because he shows that he is a man of peace, because he knows how to love.” ***

• St. Josemaria Escriva

When people look at us, they should see something which makes them interested, something that provolks them to ask how we have become different from what they see in the world, something which makes them ask how they can become like us, and even if they don’t realize that they are asking it, how they can become like Christ.

Insulting two TV preachers, gloating over the fact that they are fighting and posting videos of their debacle is not the way to get people to ask us about these things. It just makes us look like children and confirms every steriotypical caricature of Christians as hypocrites.

-Tim-

I have to agree with this.

As a non-Catholic, I wouldn’t go on a Protestant website and start a thread about Catholic TV personalities, priests, or theologians squabbling with each other.

I might bring it up here if I felt a need to inquire what the problem was about, but, I’m nowhere near so perfect myself that I would have any business gloating over someone else’s problems.

 

[tabycat]

Battle of the plastic evangelists! Betcha God wants them to make millions having a cage match on pay per view!

Maybe the two of them can ‘star’ in one of WWE pay-per-view “Hell in a Cell” matchs. :bigyikes:

 

[Sirach2]

For some reason, a Protestant organization comes up when you search for Missionaries of the Poor on that website, Charity Navigator. It’s that Protestant organization whose CEO gets paid $54K.

Missionaries of the Poor does look like an excellent charity, though. I noticed all the brothers have taken a vow of poverty, and Fr. Ho Lung seems to be a “tent maker” missionary with his music endeavours.

I think you’re right, AWM. Since they have a number of branches listed on the bottom of this page, I didn’t pick up on the discrepancy of the name. Thanks for pointing that out.

Not only can we donate financially, but they have a list of materials that can be sent to help their missions. That is super!

On another note, though I’m no Joyce Meyer fan by a long ways, she’s been getting most of her money from royalties on her many books. If people want to buy her books and make her rich, well, they’re adults and I don’t see it as any of my business.

Actually, her books aren’t that bad, and I believe she is gifted as a teacher.

 

[fbl9]

I am not sure what you mean by this.In taking money that could be used for the needy, and in encouraging people to run after possessions and wealth instead of following Jesus’s path, how are they ‘threshing the grain’?
( Not being sarcastic here- I genuinely don’t take your meaning}

yeah i have a strange sense of humour.

Don’t exactly remeber which verse this reference is from. The rich preachers are doing the work of spreading the gospel therefore they are workers of God. And they equate themselves with the oxen bringing in God’s grain(believers).

 

[Sirach2]

Don’t exactly remeber which verse this reference is from. The rich preachers are doing the work of spreading the gospel therefore they are workers of God. And they equate themselves with the oxen bringing in God’s grain(believers).

When you consider that St. Paul used this quote as justification to NOT take income, it is a far cry from the opulence we see with these televangelists.
1 cor 9:9-18 It is written in the law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is God concerned about oxen, or is he not really speaking for our sake? It was written for our sake, because the plowman should plow in hope, and the thresher in hope of receiving a share. If we have sown spiritual seed for you, is it a great thing that we reap a material harvest from you?
Yet we have not used this right. On the contrary, we endure everything so as not to place an obstacle to the gospel of Christ. What then is my recompense? That, when I preach, I offer the gospel free of charge so as not to make full use of my right in the gospel.

 

[SteveVH]

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all of these televangelists would give of their surplus rather than build sumptuous palaces with 17 bathrooms? Surely, they don’t use them all.

I don’t know, they seem pretty “full of it” to me. Maybe they do need them all.