Although sometimes not generalize, many
people in the world qualify as evangelical pastors corrupt thieves and
profiteers. This is an exaggeration. Although there are "stone in the
shoe" to the smooth running of the sovereignty of God in this world, the
divine plan of salvation will be fulfilled.
This salvation, which begins in individual
human beings, becomes palpable in a community sometimes called People of God,
other times Church or Holy Nation also disseminated throughout the land in
relatively small communities.
These groups or congregations need
administrators, including teachers (experts in the Word of the Kingdom),
evangelists (promoters), pastors (ie bishops, mayors, elders, priests, which in
the language of the Bible are synonymous), Apostles (missionaries) and prophets
(those who build, exhort and console).
The Bible says: "Do not muzzle the ox
that treads"; "The laborer is worthy of his hire"; "He who
preaches the gospel should live of the gospel" (1-Ti.5.17-18; one-Co.9.14)
Jesus said, "I am the good shepherd; The good shepherd lays down his life
for the sheep. But the hired hand is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are
not, seeth the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf attacks
the sheep and scatters them. The hireling flees because he is a hired hand and
cares nothing for the sheep. I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and mine
know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my
life for the sheep. ". Unfortunately, "the root of all evil is the
love of money, which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith
..." 1-Ti.6.10
One of the objectives of the Kingdom of God,
headed by Jesus Christ, our King Salvador, there is not poverty, nor moral,
nor, obviously, the material on its own people and nation. "For you know
the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sakes he became poor, being
rich, that ye through his poverty might become rich."
But how is this accomplished if believers to
"swim in abundance" while many may just barely survive? It is
achieved when "no man seek his own, but each one" (1-Co.10.24);
"Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of
others" (Fil.2.4).
"For I mean not that others might be
relieved while you are hard pressed, but that at this time, with equality your
abundance may be a supply for their want, that also their abundance, may be a
supply for your want: that equality, as it is written: he who gathered much had
nothing over, and he who gathered little had no lack "(2-Co.8.13-14)..
The key is therefore to redistribute the
church do its economic resources; because the interest should not focus on
building beautiful chapels or meeting places, but enhance the dignity of
believers, since the main purpose of the redemption of Christ is to free them
of the dire consequences of sin that reigns in the world and one of those
undesirable consequences is misery, poverty, which is not of God.
The economic resources of the people of God
must be for the good of all believers, not just for its managers. Also, examine
the principle laid down by the apostle Paul said: "Behold, the third time
I am ready to come to you; and I will not be a burden, for I seek not yours,
but you, ought not to lay the children for parents, but the parents for the
children. "(2-Co.12.14)

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