Here’s her description under her photo of the creek by their home on their property. It’s true. The lifestyle image she carefully cultivates is a Ma Ingalls type. Moore puts forth the deliberate image that she is just a sister to us all, living a struggling life with her man, eatin’ Ramen, and listening to the crickets for entertainment. I’d like to bring your attention to Beth Moore’s lifestyle. Yet there are other leaders who live similarly to the megapastors I’ve just mentioned. When we think of mega-rich pastors and leaders living luxuriant lifestyles, we usually think of Copeland, Duplantis, Dollar, Meyer, and Osteen. Though to people it may appear impossible, yet it is easy for God. Still, Jesus says Matthew 19:26, all these may be overcome. that it is difficult to obtain wealth without sin, without avarice, without covetousness, fraud, and oppression, 1 Timothy 6:9-10, 1 Timothy 6:17 James 5:1-5 Luke 12:16-21 Luke 16:19-31. that they often produce luxury, dissipation, and vice. that riches engross the time, and fill the mind with cares and anxieties, and leave little for God.ĥ. that they are proud of their wealth, and unwilling to be numbered with the poor and despised followers of Jesus.Ĥ. that people consider wealth as the chief good, and when this is obtained they think they have gained all.ģ. The difficulties in the way of the salvation of a rich man are:Ģ. The Bible does warn, however, that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to gain heaven. The Bible runs the gamut on the sliding scale of wealth, showing us many different people and lifestyles in its pantheon of heroes and villains. Joseph and Mary were nearly peasants and many of the disciples were simple fishermen. Abraham and Job and Solomon and Joseph of Arimathea were extremely wealthy. Ministers and leaders must be pure, humble, and Godly. Workbook which includes weekly video guides to complete with each session, weekly homework written by Beth and Melissa, and a leader guide for small or large groups included in the back of the workbook.We chortle and giggle at these obvious extremes, and wonder how much money could be spent elsewhere if only the preacher would cut down on the luxury living and donate the funds to worthy ministries, their own congregation, or anywhere else except to support their self-indulgent lifestyle choices.Find out how everything has changed, now that faith has come. Discover―or perhaps rediscover―what makes the gospel of Jesus Christ revolutionary to those who choose to believe. Study its original context and embrace its timeless relevance. Come to know the letter’s original recipients. Join Beth and Melissa Moore for a six-week deep dive into Paul’s captivating letter to the Galatians. The eternal words God entrusted to Paul for the churches of Galatia are as needed today as they were when the ink was still wet on the ancient pages. He’d remind them what it looked like to live for God’s approval rather than human approval. He’d send a letter with the volume turned up, calling believers to stand firm in the truth, stay bold in love, and walk by the Spirit. Paul would not sit quietly by and let those who’d been liberated by Christ’s glorious gospel submit again to a yoke of slavery. The relationship Paul would build with the Galatian converts―and his determination for the truth of the gospel to be preserved among them―led to one of the most passionate letters in the New Testament. God used a physical ailment to direct him there, carrying the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. The apostle Paul didn’t plan to go to Galatia.
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