So this is relevance…
July 21, 2007One Comment
Paula White is a televangelist first introduced to evangelical celebrity by prosperity preacher T. D. Jakes. The St. Petersburg Times recently ran an expose of sorts of her ministry. She’s married to Randy White with whom she shares the pastorate at Without Walls in Tampa, FL.
On a recent Sunday at Without Walls, White preached from John 2, where Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding.
“Slap somebody right upside their weave and say ‘Get in the Flow,’ ” White told the audience, her voice rising as she introduced her sermon title. “Are you ready? Somebody say ‘Bring it on. Bring it on.’ ”
Tonya Jones was mesmerized.
“She speaks to me,” said Jones, 39, a Tampa homemaker. “I like the way she brings the message in a way that I can understand.”
And what exactly is the message?
White also has been dubbed a prosperity preacher, a proponent of the name-it and claim-it gospel, which purports that people can receive financial, emotional and spiritual blessings if they donate. That message and her penchant for designer clothing and flashy cars have added to the cacophony of criticism.
White drives a Mercedes-Benz and flies around the country in a private jet. She lives in a $2.1-million mansion on Tampa’s Bayshore Boulevard and has a Fifth Avenue condo in Trump Tower in New York City.
The ministries took in $39.9-million in 2006, according to an audit of Without Walls and Paula White Ministries released in June by an independent Clearwater accounting firm.
Luke 9:23
“And he said unto them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.”
Here is something for contemplation.
He is speaking to “all” present.
He states “if” “any” man “will”.
He requires a self “denial” for following Him.
He states it is a “daily” ordeal.
He states it is likened to a “cross”.
He tells us, this is how we follow Him.
Is this what we practice?
“And again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.”
“So then ‘every one of us’ shall give an account of ‘himself’ to God.”
Sufficient is my evil for me. Some times I feel I get involved in areas that belong to God.
A wise man is quoted as asking this question;
“Has it ever occured to us that nothing ever occurs to God?”
My sin not in part but the whole!!!!!
No one ever cared for me like Jesus!
“And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore; Amen, and have the keys of hell and of death.
All that really matters to me anymore, is that the right hand of this Master, is on my life.
I need no other argument, I need no other plea, it is enough that Jesus died, and that He died for me!!!