God's Chosen People

Unbelievable.

I mean, I don't know why.

We should be united in Christ, right? But people get so emphatic about certain things.

I mean, we could take the subject of Arminianism and Calvinism, which Pastor Joe addressed the other day, and unpack.

Those sort of things should not divide us.

We need to be united in that.

Amen? And I think about end times, you know, the old story, pre-trip, mid-trip, or post-trip, if you know what I'm talking about.

People get so emphatic about it.

They get angry about it.

They wanna fight with you about it, right? And many have strong forms, strong views.

And as I said, those views are formed by who they listen to.

And so you can hear convincing views on all of those things, by the way.

No two ways about that.

And I often find that not too many seem to balance the Word of God out.

And one thing I've endeavored to do over the past 44 years is to share the whole gospel and a balanced view of the gospel.

I mean, I was listening to a podcast.

I was talking with Pastor Joe about it.

And he was bagging large mega churches, which in New Zealand, we would be one of them.

But this was an overseas person.

And he was bagging them and And he even said this, he said, no pastor, no person should ever be paid by the church.

Everybody should be voluntary.

Now that sounds good, right? I don't know if you know how many pastors burn out because they work too hard and they're paid to do it.

I mean, there's no way they could do it voluntarily, right? And of course, it violates scripture where it says those who preach the gospel should earn their living by the gospel and many others, even from the Levitical priesthood that was supported.

But you know, he was using it and saying that because of the scandal in some mega churches around the world today.

And there have been some scandals in large churches.