‘To Hell with miracle money, just work’

01 May, 2016 - 00:05 0 Views
‘To Hell with miracle money, just work’

The Sunday Mail

CHRISTIANS can fast endlessly but this will not make them successful businesspersons unless they differentiate between the nature and principles of Jesus Christ, a top bank executive has said.
Steward Bank chief executive Dr Lance Mambondiani said this during a business empowerment session hosted by Covenant Business Fellowship in Harare last week.

Dr Mambondiani said both believers and non-believers operated under the same business principles and no amount of fasting could tilt the scales in Christians’ favour.

“I believe that there is a distinction between the nature of Christ and the principles of Christ.
Christians in many instances confuse the two because we believe that because we know Christ and because we fast 360 days a year, because we go to Masowe and because we do all sorts of things that are close to the nature of Christ, then we can compete with (Econet Wireless founder) Strive Masiyiwa. It doesn’t work that way,” Dr Mambondiani said.

“People who are in the world and those that are in church operate with the same principles; business operates with the same principles whether you are a believer or non-believer.

“So you might fast all you want, you can do anything that you want in the body of Christ. If fasting was a measure of how prosperous or successful a Christian can be, I can tell you that mapostori will probably be millionaires. They are not.

“They say that money knows no colour – can I just hasten and add that it knows no colour but it also does not know your pastor. So you can cry all you want at night, you can fast all you want, if you don’t understand the principles of how money works you will be crying in vain,” added Dr Mambondiani.

The Steward Bank boss brought to the for an issue that has affected many followers in churches gripped by a wave of the prophetic and instant miracles teachings.

In 2013 leader of the then Spirit Embassy, Prophet Uebert Angel, pioneered the gospel of “miracle money” which he claimed would see cash finding its way into believers’ wallets and bank accounts.

He took that message to India last year.
Critics say such messages mislead people into thinking they can get wealthy without working but simply on the basis of a church leader praying for them.

In “Here a Little, There a Little”, Ghanaian pastor of International Central Gospel Church and founder of Central University College, Dr Mensa Otabil, said miracles of whatever nature were to ensure a disadvantaged person was brought to the same competing platform as other people.

He said the end game was that people had to get down to work as ants.
Anchoring his message on Isaiah 28:10, Dr Otabil highlighted that, “People are bored by routine and diligence yet it provides a foundation for real prosperity.”

Bishop Professor Marvelous Mhloyi, who leads Revival United Church of Christ, said the Bible clearly stated that he who didn’t work should not eat.

“Christianity is bound to be abused. Matthew 6:33 says ‘Seek first the Kingdom of God and everything else shall be added unto you’. Meaning just to get anything there are responsibilities, you have to work,” Bishop Prof Mhloyi said.

Proverbs 6:10-11 warns, “A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep – So shall your poverty come on you like a prowler, and your need like an armed man.”

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