Re: The Living Word Fellowship, The Walk, John Robert Stevens
Date: September 19, 2014 02:27AM
I was told that at the end a memorial service, a love offering was taken up for the children of the man who had died. After the memorial service was over , when one of the family members went to the ministry who was in charge of the love offering, to get the love offering given for them - instead of receiving the offering taken up for the children, they were told by the ministry in charge of the offering , that it was being given to the apostolic travel fund, because that is what their father would have wanted.
One of the men who was not a member of the church, who attended the memorial service privately gave an envelope with his gift of money for the mans children, directly to one of the mans children, saying to her, that, " he wanted to make sure they received his gift, so he did not put it in the offering plate."
Interesting how a non member went about giving his gift directly and privately to one of the man's children for the children of the family - rather than putting his gift for the family, in the collection plate.
Such wisdom already existed in the instructions given by Jesus Christ to the multitude before the early church came into existence. But who has heard it?
See Matthew 6:1 The non member gave his gift to the man's children in secret. Where God is and where God sees and rewards those who give to another person in need, in secret . See Matthew 6:6
IMO - They only do such things to the people they know they can get away with doing such things to.
If you give to another one who is in need in secret there would be no collection plate in the church - being used by any one for such needs.Nor would there be robberies such as this kind of robbery taking place in a church.