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Pastor Say That ‘Prosperity Preaching’ Should Be Stopped – Is He Right?

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The filing of a lawsuit by the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), in order to force churches to fill out IRS Form 990, which they have always been exempt from doing, has gained the support of a prominent pastor from California.

Frank Benson Jones, pastor of the Pentecostal Temple Church of God In Christ, Compton, California, has come out in support of Senior U.S. District Judge, Barbara Brandriff Crabb’s decision. The decision was made in August last year and it allowed the FFRF to continue its fight against churches not declaring their income publicly.

The FFRF complained that it was unfair on other not for profit organizations who had to declare everything on Form 990’s, while churches remained exempt. It is very easy to find out what the president of universities and even the president of the National Football League receive in salary; you can just go to guidestar.org, to view their Form 990’s.

Although it looks like Pastor Jones is coming out in support of the FFRF, he has another reason why he believes that churches should be forced to file Form 990s. He wants people to know how easy it is for certain pastors and ministries, especially those who preach prosperity theology, to fool their members into parting with their cash.

The Californian pastor believes that while such huge salaries are available to those who can preach to their members to give them their money, the ministry will suffer from those who are going into it purely for the material things and not to preach the Word of God.

One of the worse things that prosperity preachers do, according to the Pentecostal Pastor, is to give false hope to poor people that they will be rich if they will support their ministry by giving their hard earned money.

Jones continues that if multiplying their money was so easy, why do prosperity preachers have to ask poor people for their money, instead of just going to the rich for donations or sending the money to and from one another.

In his book, “Stop The Prosperity Preachers,” Jones states that people should read the Bible more and then they would not be fooled by these prosperity preachers. He continues, “They would see that Jesus did not come into the world to make us financially rich. He came that we might be saved from sin and have everlasting life in the glory of God’s heavenly kingdom.”

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