I’ll take that ignorance with me to the grave with thanks to the Christ for eyes to see with.

“Where your treasure is there your heart is.”

Jay, repent and follow Jesus.

Random? No, they’re quite on point and provide the context you said is often missing.

You mean you’d hope so. As in you thought somehow copying and pasting random quotes from the Bible somehow lends weight to Mike’s false assertion about what Jesus said about wealth?

“Every prudent man acts with knowledge, But a fool lays open his folly” – Proverbs 13:16

I would assume so.

17After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about this parable. 18″Are you so dull?” he asked.

George Whitefield probably qualifies for that honor. Whitefield almost singlehandedly introduced evangelical Christianity to the American masses (white and black) between 1739 and 1741. His movement completely ruptured the Congregationalist elite’s hold on New England churches and challenged the hold of Anglicanism in the South. It also helped popularize the New Light movement among Presbyterians, which moved with the Scots-Irish into the Appalachian backcountry. As a political consequence, Whitefield’s Great Awakening helped undermine the politco-religious elite and sow a uniquely democratic form of revival that would bear fruit in 1776. Without Whitefield, there might not have been an America.

16And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop. 17He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’

18″Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.” ‘

20″But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

21″This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich toward God.”

Do Not Worry
22Then Jesus said to his disciples: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. 23Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. 24Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds! 25Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life[b]? 26Since you cannot do this very little thing, why do you worry about the rest?
27″Consider how the lilies grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 28If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith! 29And do not set your heart on what you will eat or drink; do not worry about it. 30For the pagan world runs after all such things, and your Father knows that you need them. 31But seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.

32″Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom. 33Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. 34For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

No, he did not.

As in “You can not serve both money and God.”

That has nothing to do with gathering wealth.

You need to educate yourself on such things because your ignorance is pretty glaring.

As in “You can not serve both money and God.”

The American Christians who want to love Jesus still want their money too. Billy Graham, if he were a real Christian leader would have clarified that for us. But he didn’t.

When old Billy boy came through San Diego a few years ago he was so big they just put up billboards of him, Billy G., with a date and place. Not even a mention of God.

Jesus said, “Woe to you when all men speak well of you for that is how they treated the false prophets.”

What can I say? Everyone loves Billy because he let you have it your way and with the cash too.

In this post, Oliver casts his ballot for MLK as the most important religious man in America’s history, yet in this comment, he casts aside the great man’s advice to justify his desire to see another human being die.

He told the rich young man to “sell all you have give to the poor and follow me.”

Once more, we have people misinterpreting scripture. People often quote what you’re quoting out of context and also the camel through the eye of a needle verse out of context as well.

Jesus had nothing against wealth. The entire passage where Jesus was speaking with the young man, had to do with man’s love of money. When Jesus said to the young man, “give (not sell) all you have to the poor and follow me” He knew what the man’s decision was going to be, and used it as an example for his disciples to show how shortsighted people are and how despite the fact that life on earth is but an instant in the scheme of things, people would still choose earthly riches over an eternity in Heaven.

To lay blame at the feet of Billy Graham for corrupt politicians and those who use religion as a way of obtaining personal wealth is absurd as you’re cherry picking examples and claiming it is the “state of Christianity today.”

Billy Graham was a “great man”. He has influenced generations of American Christians.

But what is the state of Christianity in America today?

American Christians love Jesus a lot, but money even more. Witness Pat Robinson and Bruce Wilkinson, two “Christian Scholars” who preach that Jesus wants “His People” to be rich in their portfolios.

While I’m not a Biblical Scholar I find Jesus to be of the opposite opinion.

He told the rich young man to “sell all you have give to the poor and follow me.”

Coveting money American Christians have fallen prey to false Disciples of Christ. Preachers who endorsed both Bush and his war. Shameful conduct.

What are the fruits of Bill Graham? We find our country victim of unscrupulous men who use the Lord for their own personal gain, both in the pulpit and in the public office.

An intergenerational religious war because Bush said God was talking to him? I think Bush is a complete cynic, but if anyone was whispering in his ear it wasn’t Jesus.

That is true.

Sometimes it’s hard to separate the two. Just ask Mr. Pilate.