God: The Money Making Machine

What is the fastest way for a Black Man too become rich and super-rich? Be a Politician in a Democratic setting or a Man of God.

The Holy Scriptures teach us Christians to give Offerings and Thighs. God has asked Man to give 10% of his income to the Church unto God. God is a Spirit and a Power in the Trinity of God, the Son and the Holy Spirit. None of them has hands to receive any money and use it accordingly to its will. Only Humans have hands.

Healing power is not equal to an understanding of the Scriptures. This is like Men and Women knowing their ability to be fruitful and multiply delivering babies each year seeing their actions reflected in the Holy Bible, do not demonstrate a deep insight into the word of God.

Being jobless of an Arm robber transforms many Africans into Man of God eager to be close to the Prosperity of God as promised by him in the Bible. The Bible is available for small money in bookshops or given for free by established churches. Even the poorest can read the words of the Lord and memories them.

Attending some existing church services and studying different ways of handling innocent Believers that mostly come to Sunday Service in the status of financial, emotional and spiritual difficulties wanting desperately to receive their blessings from God, clever as these people are they find their marketing niche to preach the Gospel successfully and attract numbers of people by promising Heaven on Earth. Like well-prepared Actors, they know their scripts ready at any time to have a suitable quotation for their flock in need sitting on plastic chairs for hours close to the hoped for anointed lips of the Man of God before them.

When challenged by the Man of God to give accordingly to the Scriptures for the blessings to be showered upon the innocent Believer, many Christians in their times of need give to the maximum they can afford. The Men of God are never satisfied with the Offerings and Thighs being convinced each and every Sunday again and again that their congregation is not truthful to God holding money back as a sign of lacking truly understanding the Scriptures.

Once the money is in the hands of the Men of God, it is not the Almighty determining the distribution of the money given but the Egoism and self-glorification of the Men of God.

In Churches like Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche in Germany each year the books are laid out for all Church Members to inspect and see how the money collected by the Church was spend during the past fiscal year given them the opportunity to make their remarks.

As African Churches are the foundation of Humans and not originally made by God himself, these Man and Women of God put themselves in the position of the Almighty and determine by themselves the distribution of the collected money without the congregation to know the actual situation of their Church finances. The question can and should be raise, what these so called Men of God have to hide when not sharing the accounts with their people as the Church is not one person, but it is a Body of many. It is like a man that is blind on one eye while the other one can see the real truth of the matter and see behind the motivation of these “Men of God” in their pictorial, sometimes very innovative costumes.

God himself never asked his People to build him many temples. He instructed only one man, King David, to start the process of building his temple.

Looking around Africa, particularly Nigeria, we see impressive Church structures seating thousands of Followers while the temple God asked King David, his Favorite, to be glorious, yet in its dimension relatively moderate, particularly compared to today’s enormous structures.

It is not understood by the well-known names of African Church Owners that the Body of Christ is us…all of us believing in God and his word.

For that very reason whatever we have available to give outside our own house income whether into the hands of a Church Owner having the strong Egoism in his heart to Glorify his existents by preaching the Glory of God and underlining by so doing his inability of understanding the Scriptures or to a neighbor and friend in need, is the same to God. God looks into the hearts of his people and understands the situation of each and every one in the times the child of God finds him in day in and day out.

It is not the responsibility and authority of any Church Owner to press their congregation for more and more Offerings and Thighs to expand their Kingdom of God sitting in bigger and bigger cars or comfortably their immense private Mansions, but it is the inner dialog God has with each of us Christians of how much and when to give to him in the way he shows to us.

Author: Dipl.-Pol. Karl-Heinz Heerde, Sakumono Estate, Tema West, Block D10, Aprt 9, Ghana, [email protected] , phone 00233(0)265078287, 30.09.2015