There are preachers, then there are real preachers..

[ironglow]

  Yes; there are the "prosperity" .."feel good" and "sin is no problem" preachers...  Then there are the Biblical, "preach the whole word" preachers.

  Much can be told, without saying a word.  Check out their homes..  First the "feel good' types..

[ironglow]

  Now, the homes of some real "preachers of the word".  It is harder nto find pictures of the homes of many REAL preachers, since trhere is nothing remarkable about them.

[locust]

it was foretold that there would be many saying Jesus is the Christ. yet they would prove to be false preachers. evidently  in it for the money

[GTS225]

And thus, my SERIOUS issue with organized religion.

Roger

[ironglow]

And thus, my SERIOUS issue with organized religion.

Roger

  ..But....  "let's not throw out the baby with the  bathwater".  There are plenty of good ministries out there..and the domicile where they reside, can
  provide a clue.

   As shown in the photos, many preachers live in modest homes.  Keep in mind also, and be wary of those ministries which are "emotion driven"..
   People who let their emotions drive their decisions, tend to elevate the local under shepherd, as some kind of demigod.

  I once heard Joyce Meyer tell her "flock" to..not think with their head..but with their heart (emotions) ! 

  So, naturally, my thoughts went to.   (Jeremiaj 17:9,10)    "The heart is deceitful above all  things, and desperately wicked: who can know it"?
   
 However, we should not overlook the following admonition; 

      "not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching." (Hebrews 10:25)

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[Bob Riebe]

T.D. Jakes has business income not related to his minisry; Copeland has become the most self-centered of the ones I have listened to in the pat 30 years
he and several others have become god wannabe BSers rather than preachers of he word.

I have noticed some of those I am referring to have become absent from TBN though; no more daily morining shows; maybe they got their money and do not need TV to feed their pockets any more.

Benny Hinn recently publicly regretted and apologized for preaching the prosperity doctrine in the past; he actually said it was wrong.

[ironglow]

it was foretold that there would be many saying Jesus is the Christ. yet they would prove to be false preachers. evidently  in it for the money

  Two differing issues here.  #1) Jesus said there would be false teachers.. correct !  #2) Jesus IS the Christ...so you are incorrect there.

  In fact..Scripture has warned in the same breath so to speak, that the false teachers would deny Jesus' Lordship !

      "2 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction." (2 Peter 2:1)

  ..And as scripture warned, those false teachers are still around today....and some are still falling for their false teachings.
 

[locust]

it was foretold that there would be many saying Jesus is the Christ. yet they would prove to be false preachers. evidently  in it for the money

  Two differing issues here.  #1) Jesus said there would be false teachers.. correct !  #2) Jesus IS the Christ...so you are incorrect there.

  In fact..Scripture has warned in the same breath so to speak, that the false teachers would deny Jesus' Lordship !

      "2 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction." (2 Peter 2:1)

  ..And as scripture warned, those false teachers are still around today....and some are still falling for their false teachings.
 

In the King James Version of the Bible, Matthew 24:5 reads, "For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many". In the New International Version, it reads, "For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Messiah,' and will deceive many".

yep there are many that do say that Jesus is the Christ. even you . that does not mean jesus likes the things said and done .   Matthew 7:23 says, "And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness'"

[ironglow]

 Yeah Loxcust...dream on....

[locust]

what other way could it be read ?