Costi Hinn called his uncle's theology "twisted."

Benny Hinn's Pastor Nephew Slams Prosperity Gospel

The pastor nephew of televangelist Benny Hinn has slammed his uncle's promotion of the "prosperity gospel" and urged "real pastors and real churches" to "stand up and say 'No, that is not Christianity."
In an HLN exclusive interview with Carol Costello, Costi Hinn, executive pastor at The Mission Bible Church in Orange County, California, called his uncle's theology "twisted."

"If you take the Bible and you take what Jesus taught and you take some of the promises of heaven and the riches of heaven and the wonderful glories of heaven and you make them a new thing, then you really have a model for your best life now."

"That's really not the heartbeat of Christianity," he continued, "the heartbeat of Christianity is, if you have wealth, you want to be generous and rich in good works. If God has blessed you with a lot, you have a great responsibility."

Prosperity gospel, as defined by the Lausanne Theology Working Group, is the teaching that "believers have a right to the blessings of health and wealth and that they can obtain these blessings through positive confessions of faith and the 'sowing of seeds' through the faithful payments of tithes and offerings."

The prosperity gospel, Hinn said, is particularly dangerous to those living in impoverished nations who give the last of their money to prosperity preachers in hopes that they will receive material blessings.

"You put a guy on a platform in a really nice suit in a very beautiful auditorium and he'll tell a whole bunch of Americans, 'if you do this, and do this, and do this, you'll get this.' And God is like your magic genie," Hinn said.

"If you rub Him right and do all the right things, your bank's going to grow, you're going to get that promotion, you're going to get that woman that you want to marry, that perfect man, your life is going to be perfect, because that's what God wants for you."
Hinn urged "feal pastors and real churches" to "stand up and say 'No, that is not Christianity. That's not what the Bible teaches.'"

Hinn emphasized that the Gospel includes the good news of hope and the bad news of the reality of sin for people in all walks of life.

"Our job as preachers and pastors is to give the whole story," Hinn said, admitting that growing up, he was "greedy" and "very ambitious for all the wrong things." He shared how his family was "living the dream," with flights on a G4 or G5 private Gulfstream airliners, layovers in Monte Carlo, and stays in hotel suites that cost $25,000 per night.

"We were teaching things that were wrong. We were taking advantage of [people], exploiting the poor, using our greed, squeezing every last dollar out of people so we could live the way they could never," while using Jesus to do that, he explained.

Thankfully, Jesus has forgiven him of his sins.

"Jesus died to forgive my sins. He loves me just the way I am in all my mess and all my greed. And if I commit to a change He'll meet me right where I am. And He did. He changed my heart and I just had no taste for it anymore. I did not want that life."

Benny Hinn, 64, is considered the author of a variety of inspirational Christian books, along with his thirty-minute TV program This Is Your Day is among the world’s most-viewed Christian programs

Evangelist Nick Vujicic in Ukraine

Over "400,000 souls gave their to Jesus at Life Without Limbs Tour in Europe

Limbless evangelist Nick Vujicic has thanked God after his team observed 400,000 people repent of sins and start their spiritual journey with Jesus in a recent event in Ukraine.

"The greatest event our team at Life Without Limbs has witnessed and perhaps the biggest event ever in Europe - 800,000 individuals the main roads and streets of Kyiv Ukraine! Thank God," Vujicic said on Facebook on Tuesday.

"400,000 repented of the sins and started their spiritual journey with Jesus - Now LWL celebrates the witness of just one million decisions just to walk with and trust God in everything face to face, he added.

Vujicic, 33, also stated he later stopped in Russia on his evangelism tour, where he remained for 40 hrs.

"Regrettably I wasn't able to meet the President this trip but we still plant seeds of affection, love, and hope across the nation until some unique doorways are available to share - appreciate your support," he wrote in an update.

Vujicic was born without legs or arms, and it was given no medical reason behind this problem. Regardless of the challenges, he's faced, he's today a global-famous inspirational speaker and author.

Stated on the Life Without Limbs website, Vujicic said he began his ministry to inspire other people who, like him, have faced "numerous challenges and obstacles," to understand that with God, anything can be done. Everything is possible.


"Life Without Limbs is about discussing this same hope and genuine love which I have personally familiar with people around the world, Inch he stated. "It has been stated that doorways available to a guy without legs and arms a lot more easily rather than other people, we thankfully for supplying that privilege. I have been asked into very unpredicted places to talk about my belief in Jesus and literally millions have responded."

The evangelist stated he's traveled to in excess of 63 countries to talk about the gospel, and the "finest pleasure within this life would be to introduce Jesus to individuals I meet and let them know of His great desire to get at knowing them personally by permitting and allowing Him to be their Lord and Savior."

"Due to the ministry of Life Without Limbs, God has utilized me in numerous schools, places of worship, prisons, orphanages, hospitals, stadiums as well as in face-to-face encounters with folks, letting them know how very precious they're to God," he stated. "It's our finest pleasure to make sure people who God comes with an agenda for every single life that's significant and purposeful, for God required my life, one which others might disregard as not getting any significance and that he has filled me together with his purpose and demonstrated me he intends to use me to move hearts and lives toward Him."

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Prayer Requests

Today's Prayer Requests

Lijy | People to hear the word of God and get away from idol worship and pagan festivals. Even Christians are following or celebrating Hindu festivals with the rebellious mind to accept the truth. India is dangerously promoting Hinduism with the indirect support of government.

Alta Young |  pray for me and my boyfriend because we are in love with each other but everyone is trying to tear us down and get in between us. I dont want to lose him. We are also trying to have a little one and I pray that God can give us a beautiful gift from him. We both really need prayers for our relationship and ourselves please keep us both in your prayers. Have a blessed day and thank you!!

VERA BANKSTON-JONES | FATHER GOD,WE AS PPL DO NOT THINK ON THE SAME LEVEL, YET WHERE, WHEN, AND HOW DO YOU DISREGARD FRIENDS?.......SELAH

Laren Hacker | Please pray for my father-in-law, Edwin Vance. He has fallen VERY ill and has been in the ICU for almost 3 weeks! It's very touch and go with him but our family, his family, cannot lose him. He is a big part of our lives. It can't be his time to join the Lord, it's too soon. We need to come together at a time like this. We all need to pray. Thank you.

vijay aggarwal | Plz pray for money in abundance for a comfortable life

Christians Hospitalized After Hindu Mob Attacks

Christians Hospitalized After Hindu Mob Attacks Indian Church During Sunday Worship

Two or more Christians happen to be hospitalized and therefore are in critical condition following a Hindu mob attacked and desecrated a church worship service in India Sunday, the number one Christian persecution watchdog group has reported.

Worldwide Christian Concern, an America based NGO dedicated to promoting for persecuted Christians, has reported that the mob of approximately 300 Hindu radicals interrupted Sunday service in the Bastar for Christ Movement Church found in the Jasapara village within the Dantewada District of India's Chhattisgarh Condition.

Witnesses told ICC the mob beat the boys, ladies and kids of the congregation and pulled them from the building. The extremists allegedly required the worshipers renounce their belief in Christ. However when the Christians declined to do this these were beaten with sticks.

The mob set fire towards the church's furniture as well as stripped a few of the Christian women.

As many as nine worshipers were seriously hurt.

Based on ICC, Raju Sodi and Sangeetha Kartami hurt their heads and hands and were rushed to some local hospital. These were later delivered to a government-run hospital in Dantewada once they were considered to stay in critical condition.

Local police didn't initially cooperate and declined to file for a study concerning the altercation after being accustomed to the incident through the Christian community. Additionally, local Christians told ICC that Hindu radicals had filed a police report from the Christian community prior to the attack happened.

Based on the organization, it required over 24 hrs of protests held through the Christian community prior to the police department recognized the situation, and it is unlikely that participants within the radical mob are going to be arrested and attempted in the court.

"The attack on Jaripara's Christians is inhuman and highly condemnable," an anonymous local pastor told ICC. "These attacks are appearing around the backdrop from the condition elections which are nearing. The [Bharatiya Janata Party], who's in power within the condition, causes it to be even more simple for the Hindu radicals to keep the hate campaign against religious minorities for that political gains."

As Open Doorways USA ranks India as the 15th-worst nation on the planet with regards to Christian persecution, the organization finds that occurrences of Christian persecution in India have skyrocketed within this past year.

Based on Open Doorways USA reports, there have been over 410 occurrences of Christians being harassed, threatened or attacked for his or her belief within the first six several weeks of 2017. In comparison, there have been as many as 441 occurrences as reported by Open Doorways USA set for the whole of 2016.

"Once the Christians are beaten through the extremists, they receive injuries totally on their heads or their vital parts of the body. The assaulters don't care when the person dies of the attack," a nearby partner told Open Doorways USA in August. "They already know they're not going to be punished by the government (and therefore the judiciary) will require their side. In the majority of the cases, the assaulters go unpunished."

Open Doorways notes that the rise in persecution in India "had not been so outstanding" and may come as Pm Narendra Modi and also the BJP has been in power at the federal level. The BJP is basically considered the political arm of the Hindu nationalist organization Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

"The government pm belongs to the BJP and that he categorically denies Christians or any other minorities are now being persecuted," Open Doorways USA reports. "Throughout a tv program, he stated he's no understanding from the burning of places of worship or other kinds of persecution."

ICC's Regional Manager William Stark stated inside a statement that attacks on Christians Indians as well as their places of worship have become "a nearly daily occurrence." He stressed that Christians in India "seem like second-class citizens."

"Hindu radicals across the nation appear to possess received a large berth by local government bodies to pursue their hate campaigns against Christians along with other minorities. This lack of ability or unwillingness to safeguard and enforce the legal rights of Christians must end," Stark asserted. "While Article 25 of India's metabolic rate guarantees full religious freedom for those citizens, the possible lack of India's enforcement of the freedom leaves Article 25 as just words in writing. India's leaders should do more to confront the problem of accelerating religious violence."

Business Ethics and Christian Faith

Business Ethics and Christian Challenges

The relationship between Business ethics and Christianity has become a trendy subject in the contemporary context. This consideration must have been as a result of a quest in assessing possible factors capable of influencing business ethics and environment. Many suggest that Christian faith and business ethics are two parallel entities capable of ruining the benefits or true practice of the other. Others insist they are common and wholeheartedly agree with each other.

We can begin by defining the two terms and properly evaluating the intercepting points of Business ethics and Christianity. Before assessing if there’s positive correlation as alleged by many or a full disagreement. Business ethics are measures or principles applied in business for its growth and the best interest/satisfaction of the stakeholders, shareholders, and the business community. Christianity refers to the life of Jesus, the Son of God. Christians are known as the believers of the Son of God who practice the same life like Him.

The Ten Commandments

It can be deduced that business ethics are not explicitly subjecting any businessman or woman into a deviancy from Christianity since it has no specific outlines of contrary activities. However, when business standards are established for only profits, it would be accepted that business ethics may involve cheating, greed, dishonesty, and negligence of trust or others of its kind which are not in concordance with the Christian faith.

Without being bias in Christianity, business ethics include
• Honesty
• Loyalty
• Accountability
• Integrity
• Impartiality
• Trustworthiness
• Respect and concern for others
• Law Abiding
• Commitment to Excellence

The mentioned business ethics above, however, are fully in concordance with the Christian faith. Aside from those mentioned above, there are other business ethics which promote Christian challenges in the corporate world. These challenging ethics are either induced by the business stakeholders, shareholders or business environment. To an extent, some business requires illegal activities before success can be recorded. However, some of this business ethics are fabricated by the operating individuals to enforce business profit regardless of the religious views or Christian ideology to those decisions.

Christian challenges in the corporate world

The corporate world is more centred at profit-making, and being in the position to participate in a business environment can be challenged by many factors. Aside from your personal decisions to ensure stability to your business and to enforce growth, business supervisors can also contribute to these challenges. Not mentioning those from subordinates.

Let’s recall that Business ethics are measures to ensure the business growth. It does not make a necessary account for the legality of the measure. Hence, some of the ethics not promoting Christianity include the following.

Sales of services or products not supported by Christian faith

Some business ethics necessary in making more sales of a product or services may imply an introduction of a complementary product, which is not endorsed by the Christian faith. These complementary products or services sometimes serve as the principal means of selling. While they remain a service Christians cannot support, it leaves them with practising below the required ethics to flourish in such business. Some of these products or services may include the use of prostitutes to promote brothel business.

Contrary demands from business shareholders or Stakeholders

In business ethics, shareholders contribute to every decision carried out to maintain its growth. But profits are usually prioritized as against religious views or positions. Operating as a Christian business manager may become more challenging when the stakeholders demand that some contrary actions are taken to favour the business growth instead of integrity and honesty. A good example of this position may be operating with an expired license for a certain period, delivering an alternative or substandard product in place of the customer’s demand by changing the pack, etc.

Product hoarding to create inflation and exorbitant profit

Another business ethics by most business owners which are highly beneficial especially when they lack competitors is to hoard the products or make it scarce in the area to enforce a new price. This leaves the consumers no choice but to secure the product or services since they would have to travel a considerable distance for anything similar. Hoarding nullifies trust, integrity, honesty, accountability, among others.

 

Overcoming business ethics not in accordance with Christian faith

The most assuring way to overcome business ethics that are not in concordance with Christian faith is first to accept that they are wrong and not to be practised. This strong disagreement with the wrong ethics gives you an edge to the right position (1 Thessalonians 5:22).

Christian faith and business ethics are not to be treated separately by any Christian. Rather, Christianity should superimpose every business ethics to be adopted (Proverbs 3:6, Matthew 6:33). Irrespective of the profit assured by a contrary business ethics, Christians should understand that business environment and ethics should also serve as a medium of teaching salvation. Christians should not forget that every practice awaits rewards. Hence, only good foundations can stand the test of time.




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