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Originally Posted by Ron
First off Brother, thank you for your response, even if you do not agree with me I appreciate the spirit in which it is posted & can see your view point.
I am a minister not Pastor, I am assisting a very good man I won to the Lord over 26 years ago.
I have learned a lot from him.
As for the discussion, we are only hearing one side of the discussion & that isn't right. It isn't fair to the Minister, his family, nor the people in that Church who may or may hold the same viewpoint.
I was taught not to munch on the minister & his family but to have respect & if there is a problem then there is processes in place to deal with it.
I don't know much about the Brownsville Revival.
Thanks again for responding & blessings to you.
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Thank You Brother Ron.
I am a female but often get accused of being male. I've had to live in a cruel world where I had to learn not to be scammed by people and to stick up for myself long before I married. Perhaps I've never lost that survival technique.
In this community where I live, there are many pastors who do not allow "assistant" pastors...except for a few who are maybe sons...son-in-laws...or grandsons. That is not accountability to me. Children will mostly always take the side of daddy or granddaddy.
The Brownsville Revival was a big thing that happened in Pensacola, Florida. Word of this so-called Great Revival in that "God was showering great blessings" upon the people reached far and wide across America. Millions and Millions of dollars were going into overflowing buckets. People traveled from near and far to come to see this "experience", only to find that the church was so packed that they could not get anywhere near the entrance.
Yet the people of the poor neighborhood that church was located in saw no improvement or sharing of all those 'blessings' the preachers said that God gave to them in the form of money. They've come to look upon that revival with contempt.
Here is a snippet of what somebody had to say after it all collapsed...or maybe just ran it's course. True blessings of God goes beyond worldly riches. When the worldly riches dissipated from the congregation, they all just scratched their heads wondering what really happened. How come nobody told them?
Snippet:Mr. Grady:
Please do not stop asking the questions. Someone must.
I was at Brownsville when Mike Murdock sold the Boaz Annointing. Nobody asked any questions.
When the pastor used over $100,000 that was raised to pay for landscaping because he wanted a "spirit of excellence," nobody asked any questions, even though staff members were being layed-off because the church didn't have the money to pay salaries.
When Tudor Bizmark put money on the new pastor's head and prophesied great wealth for him and the church, nobody asked any questions.
More recently when Bob Rogers promised everyone they could buy the blessings of
Isaiah 58 with a $58 offering, nobody asked any questions.
When the pastor at Brownsville spent almost $100,000 remodeling an office he almost never used, nobody asked any questions.
When the congregation was lied to time and time again, nobody asked any questions.
When the pastor angrily resigned the church leaving a declining congregation swimming in debt, nobody asked any questions.
When he built a 3 million dollar home with the wealth from the revival nobody asked any questions.
Now, when God has sent him to Daphne to do the same thing to the willing weirdos over there, everyone is still afraid to ask questions.
I understand that there are certain ministries that have their own search and destroy teams and they are certainly out to get you, but please, please, keep asking the questions.
http://www.apostasywatch.com/Wolves/...0/Default.aspx
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This can easily happen when any suave-talking minister from any denomination slips away from a church that is no longer useful to him.
He may have been sincere in his early walk with Christ, but somewhere the earthly goods and authority lifted his heart and head above the ground disregarding Paul's admonishing of humility and to live simply and equal with your brothers and sisters by giving of your excess to ease somebody else's poverty circumstances.
People need to beware, dump the one pastor-one congregation model and have several ministers ministering to that many people in a congregation. Perhaps the board ought to be the one who interviews and puts the candidates before the people to vote yea or nay. There are a lot of safeguards that can be put into place in Christ's church. We just need to ask God for all the wisdom He will impart to us in choosing these leaders.
Had somebody told the people of Brownsville in Pensacola that these 'men of God' pulled the same trick in Toronto, Canada, perhaps they would have sent them packing before it started.
There is no telling how many of the sincere Pentecostal churches in that area are suffering from the tactics of these men. They are gone and do not have to feel the backlash of sincere Pentecostal people from the lost that saw the hypocrisy in these services.
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