When people teach publicly, it is right to call them out publicly and comment publicly, whether in support or rebuke. Recently, I stomached a few minutes of some of the most sickening “Gospel for Money” I’ve ever heard. I’m not sure who needs rebuked more: the guy teaching it, the people broadcasting it or the people greedily soaking it up.
Steve Munsey is false teacher selling the Gospel for money (and a HORRIBLE Bible teacher, if it’s even possible to attach his name to those words). I’ve been watching some of his “teaching” on the mostly embarrassing “GodTV”… I’m jotting down his actual points as I listen:
- God instituted Pentecost for people who need financial breakthrough (what an insult to the true reason for Pentecost).
- He’s now seeing “in his spirit” that God is calling someone to give a million dollars… and now God’s telling him that that next 120 who give God has especially said they will get a financial reward… all while his two guest hosts are babbling in supposed tongues despite the Biblical command that tongues be interpreted for the edification of all (if you believe they are still in operation).
- Now they are talking about their special sacrifice of money on Mount Moriah that directed them to do. Now he’s promising that God is promising an extra special blessing for the next few givers. “Get on the phone, get on the phone, get on the phone… do it now, don’t wait, God is calling” (as emotional piano music and tongues fill the background).
Do you know the real problem with all this shameful “money changing” and begging is? The real problem is the millions of gullible, Biblically illiterate and materialistic Christians who respond by sending money waiting for their financial reward from God as if He were some sort of cosmic genie who has no choice but to respond to the “spiritual laws” we are manipulating for our own benefit.
Question for all the money beggars on the primarily false teaching channels (GodTV, TBN, etc): if God promises great reward for the financial sacrifice of faith, why don’t all of your ministries simply give away all their money instead of the 24/7 begging and butchering Scripture to manipulate milk-drinking Christians into sending in their “seed faith” money to you? How come it supposed to work for those who GIVE TO YOU but not for you giving it all away? Sounds like you’ve been consulting with Congress.
Let’s name names folks. Time to quit pussyfooting around about those who constantly deliver false teaching and begging about money: Mike Murdoch, Steve Muncy, Todd Bentley, Marilyn Hickey, Benny Hinn, TBN, Paul Crouch, John Avanzini, Paula White, Jesse Duplantis, Juanita Bynum, Ken Copeland & Mr. Money Cometh Leroy Thompson, Creflo Dollar and on and on. Then you have the next level down of copycats fleecing regional areas or local churches.
But again I must say: if there weren’t plenty of greedy people available for fleecing, these folks would be out the business (and it IS a business, that’s a fact).
- Now on the so-called “God TV”, Munsey & Co. are wrapping up the beg session with more outrageous manipulation: “thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus, praise you Jesus” over and over and over and over and over with piano background music working up the emotion as they read off the pledges of money pouring in. They are saying “hurry, the sun is going down and God is only promising the blessing until the sun goes down.” Wow… what blatant lies and greed.
- Now they are promising God will bless the next givers by ending lawsuits, removing diseases (naming specific diseases which of course is even more manipulative), debt removed… but, Steve says, you must make a vow (of course that means give money) which he just confirmed by repeating over and over “get on the phone, get on the phone, get on the phone… IT’S PENTECOST!!!!! The sun is going down, hurry! You can only do this on PENTECOST!”
- Now God is telling him a “might rushing wind” (the Holy Spirit) is rushing across America and South America… “hurry, don’t miss it”….
2 Timothy 4:2-4, “Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”
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It is so maddening! I was in the hospital all of last week and occasionally watched the Church Channel just to see what all the heretics were up to. I really could only watch for a few minutes before getting angry – and I was afraid the nurses might think I actually believed that garbage.
I was so surprised when I turned it on Saturday evening and heard Eric Barger speaking The Truth! It was so refreshing.
I posted this on facebook.
These shows make me sick as it gives so much ammunition to those people, who are not Christians, to make Christians look like crazy people out to steal your money. It makes it harder to reach people with the true promises of God. It seems like there have been enough of these people exposed for their false teachings that I don’t understand how these shows stay on the air. I guess there are still many how believe them.
THANK YOU, BRENT! I am so sick of hoping to see what is supposed to be Christian broadcasting and finding THESE people – and regretfully, many of the people whose ministries I might otherwise respect are wrapped up arm in arm with them on share-a-thons, etc., until I begin to wonder if any of them knows what is necessary to put out the pure Gospel of Christ these days. Out of the list of names you posted, I have learned that I can count on this – if Mike Murdoch is on my television he is going to be “seed planting” and “harvesting” and spreading his garden with his own brand of fertilizer, too! I wish he’d go buy him a big farm with his ill-gotten gains and plant real seeds and harvest and learn how to do an honest day’s work for money – and quit doing Satan’s work under the guise of doing God’s. Even those with little spiritual discernment should be able to discern these characters. If God is using them to bring people to Him then forgive me for not upholding them – but I remember a Bible story where God was also able to use a donkey, too, to accomplish his purpose. Have you ever tried to see any financial reporting of these guys? Just wondering……..
“…Time to quit pussyfooting around about those who constantly deliver false teaching and begging about money…” Thank you for calling it what it is and naming names. I don’t want to be uncharitable to anyone, but there really does come a time when our desire to be charitable just becomes a means towards distraction and confusion. If anything, we err far too much on “giving the benefit of the doubt” to people who ought really to be the subject of direct and open warnings within the church. Thanks again.
I was thinking about how this related to the money-changers of Jesus’ time, where since the Hebrew shekel was the only allowable offering, the priests were making a killing on the Roman coin trade-ins.
The Bible suggests that our first and finest offering should be repentance, faith, and prayer.
Us “churchified” people are bringing less of the ‘real treasure’ before His throne.
Thank You! Thank You! I could add a few more to your list, but it wouldn’t matter. God will eventually weed them out.
I truly believe TBN and the countless other spin-offs have done more harm than good for Christians.
Paul and Jan Crouch look like cartoon characters, (The Simpsons) setting in their gold painted throne chairs with the gilded piano.
Flipping through channel after channel, I see the Prosperity Message featured on most all prorgrams.
as been done to his name.
Keep up the good work Brent.