“It is just a shame that it is usually the secular press, and not the church of God, that has to call this stuff out.”
When megachurches are publicly critiqued, sometimes it is well-deserved:
It is a general truth that if believers are fed a diet of faulty, questionable or incorrect teaching, this may very well show up in how they live. Just as orthodoxy (good teaching) is needed for orthopraxis (good living), so too bad doctrine will often result in bad behaviour. One sad example of this was found in the morning newspaper yesterday . It said in part: Christian megachurch Hillsong told staff how to claim housing expenses, including a $50,000 pool, as deductions to minimise tax, leaked documents show. Emails and internal forms from the scandal-plagued church, tabled in federal parliament, reveal Hillsong’s “unwritten rules” when it comes to paying tax. The details have emerged as the church […]
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