To The ATM Church in Aurora-
A Church that teaches God's word. A church thats worship is pure and pleasant to the Lord's ears.
But still you anger the LORD with your lack of faith.
Yes the LORD told me after the last abomination; that of begging for gold, that you would soon turn to other contrived ideas from your sinful hearts; the lusts of man are many. But the Lord says, "To stoop so low as to now beg for silver from MY children and have this Pastor Roger 'GUILT' my innocent ones into giving what they probably don't have, in silver, gold, or money, is an ABOMINATION to ME. You show no faith in ME whatsoever and I am about to pass judgement on the leaders of this church.
How dare you GUILT my children with a dissertation for 20 minutes and say, "To be quite honest with you, the collections for Pastor Phil haven't been enough".
NOT ENOUGH???? How does he know if people have given enough. Does he know the financial situation of each person in the church??? Does he know how they sacrifice at times even to meet their tithe, let alone being GUILTED into giving more because of your lust for money and comfortable lifestyle. Not ENOUGH; perhaps you are asking too much of MY children; yes the ones that pay your salary, pay the light bill, pay the mortgage and the sames ones you sweet-talked your way to get $50,000.00
for a building and a parking lot, that you just had to have. How's that parking lot working out for you now? What happened to buying that building and using that parking lot. I have not seen one blade of grass cut or a stone moved, let alone a car parked there!"
So now you try to twist God's word to justify your guilting and begging. Quoting scriptures about gathering gold, silver and precious stones. Are our old diamonds next??!! For shame on you; you should be wiser than that and more faithful to God. What ever happened to GOD's timing and waiting on HIM. But no! Instead you would rather create your own timing, go against GOD and drain the church family of their hard earned money, savings, and give me a break.... "old gold and old silver"!
I have a few fund-raising ideas for the church leaders if this latest one didn't reach your goal.
1) Find a good Christian dentist or an Atheist, it doesn't matter as far as you're concerned. Set up a dentist chair on the alter of the church and ask people to come up and donate their gold or silver fillings 'for the cause'.
2) Get a good Christian doctor or an Atheist, it doesn't matter as far as you're concerned. Set up a blood-drawing station in the sanctuary and instead of metaphorically bleeding the church dry, actually DO IT!!! Then you can sell the blood.
3) Instead of sending 'Re-Live' down to Haiti, where we know that isn't being used anyways and set up a 'Re-Live' smoothie bar in 'Bagels and Grace'. This way the church makes money for Phil's salary and Pastor Gerry the guilt master II, still gets a hefty commission like he does when the mission team brings over $20,000.00 of 'Re-Live'
to Haiti that NONE of the children will drink because it tastes like something from a 'compost' pile from 3 years ago........ in Haiti!
Thats enough for now. I don't want to give you too many ideas and have you raise too much money too quickly. I mean...... there still is time for you to ask for our children's college funds or the old stand-by of 'DONATING' an EXTRA car.
Beware of where you tread next. God is watching and so are we. I'm sure God has spoken to you through more than just me. I'm sure others are being used by HIM, y=to try to get you back on the narrow path, instead of the path that WILL lead to your DESTRUCTION. Don't be so arrogant to think that The LORD will not deal with you on these matters. You are just men after all; sinners just like us common folk that you try and guilt into forcing the issues that GOD has a specific timing for. Don't be blinded by the 'INFECTION of DECEPTION'. Seek GOD and HIS wisdom and timing........ not yours.
May God bless you with patience, wisdom, and repentance.
Jeremiah, HIS servant
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