Pastor Korede shared how he gave his January salary as first fruit to his pastor.
According to him, after he obeyed and had his first fruit, a couple from the UK, people he didn't remember meeting called and gave him the money they had saved to buy a house. The couple said God told them to do it.
He also claimed that many people started to place him on a monthly salary. He said houses, cars, gifts and uncountable money began to flow in as gifts from every direction.
Then he told the listeners that that was the way to prosperity.
When pastors share testimonies like this, members rush to sow more money and even entire salaries, hoping for the same supernatural return.
But the gift economy rarely works for the members.
Outside these transactional testimonies, what percentage of Christians actually become wealthy through random gifts or strangers placing them on monthly salaries?
There are few. For most people including believers, money comes through value creation, labour, skill, and not mysterious calls from abroad offering house savings.
Miracles do happen even to those who don't know the Lord, but they are not the norm. Most members do not receive their cars as gifts, and they certainly do not receive houses every month.
Interestingly, many of these pastors do not depend on giving alone. Over time, they become investors, building businesses, acquiring properties, and creating multiple income streams. But what is often ignored is that the starting capital for these ventures came from the collective seeds of members.
The most troubling part is the later shift in tone. After becoming wealthy through years of collective giving, some pastors begin to mock the financial state of struggling pastors and Christians.
When anybody says anything opposing sow seed, they say stuff like, “How much is your offering, do you know how much we spent in Manchester last week. We don't need your chicken feed."
This is evil because the offering of these so-called poor people sustained them in the beginning.
The transactional gospel is a big distraction to the Gospel of Christ in the church as it exalts money above everything.
Courtesy: Tosin Odoje
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