Family First, Not the Church
December 9th, 2011
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by admin · Filed Under: Blog · Recharge Your Life
Author: David J. Stewart
“But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than AN INFIDEL.” —1st Timothy 5:8
Charity starts at home. This is Biblical. 1st Timothy 5:8 warns that failing to provide for one’s own family makes a man WORSE than an unsaved heathen. A father should always provide for his family first, which includes paying down any credit card debt before tithing. The idea is absurd that a struggling husband and father is supposed to tithe in the midst of an economic recession, while America’s good paying jobs have relocated to foreign soil to exploit slave labor, while illegal immigrants have been deliberately allowed to flood into America’s work-force (thus lowering real wages), while we’re being hammered with unconstitutional taxes, while our own government is catapulting us and our children into MASSIVE national debt! The average pastor couldn’t care less about these cancerous realities in America that hurt working citizens.
Some pastors are so consumed with making a name for themselves that they’re willing to unfairly pressure the people in their ministry to give unwisely. I know a Baptist pastor of a large congregation who pressured all the parents to give their children’s college funds to the church. 1st Timothy 5:8 teaches, “But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.” Biblically, parents are supposed to put their children’s college first; NOT the church! If you give your child’s college funds to the church, the Bible says you’re WORSE than a heathen unsaved person (because even Godless heathens look after their kids). Proverb 13:22 states, “A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.” So while your pastor and his staff are vacationing in Hawaii or the Holy Land with your child’s college tuition money, your child is struggling at a minimum wage job trying to stay afloat financially and is unable to pay for today’s ridiculously high tuition costs.
I know another man whose widowed mother signed over the house to her church in her will; but her son had no home of his own. That is just plain idiocy. Parents ought to put their children first!!! This is Biblical. We’re hearing many stranger doctrines in these Last Days from preachers, saying anything and everything possible to sucker you out of your money. God never intended for us to give money to support padded pews, plush carpeting, stained-glass windows, giant projection entertainments screens, and annual trips to the Holy Land and Hawaii for the church staff, et cetera.





