I gotta tell you, if my name were Creflo "Dollar" I might think twice about preaching a health, wealth and prosperity gospel (or at least consider changing my name)!

I wonder how Jesus would feel if He attended some of our churches where all we preach is positive, feel good stuff? I think he might feel a little out of place, since the BULK of His ministry was about sacrificing, serving and selflessness. I find it hard to believe that new cars, fancy homes and expensive clothes meant very much to Him. If you don't believe me, remember what He said to those who brazenly declared they would follow Him before they considered the cost- "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has NO PLACE to lay His head." (Matt. 8:20)

How sad that the only way we can build churches these days is by promising people that which we cannot deliver! Is it any wonder so many start the walk of faith and then peter out before our eyes? If we're preaching lies, (and believing them) we deserve exactly what we get!

Rev. Dollar, proclaimer of a distorted, ego-centric gospel, finds himself under investigation by some in the U.S. Senate. What have we come to, when the church has to depend on the government to police her, instead of us policing ourselves?

Sadder still is the lack of discernment among so-called followers of Christ! They sit week after week in these services OR they stay glued to their TV sets, hoping that some of the gold and glitter will come their way! I think the thing that REALLY rankles me is when these guys and gals claim that their big homes, numerous cars and private jets are the blessings of the Lord! Nothing could be further from the truth! Those aren't the blessings of the Lord- they were paid for by silly, easily-duped, naive, wanna-be's who will go without food so their favorite TV evangelist can make the next payment on his jet!

Dollar claims that his lavish lifestyle is funded NOT by the church, but by his investments. Creflo, where did the money come from in the first place to fund those investments? I love his response to questions about his lifestyle- "It may be excessive, but that doesn't mean its wrong!" I wonder how Jesus would respond to that answer? (remember- the guy who didn't own a home, depended on others for food, slept out in the open, and the fanciest transportation He ever had was a donkey?)

Forgive me for sounding irritated, BUT I AM! When throngs of women (and some men) will sit with mouths agape for hours on end- soaking up every word Joyce Meyer says, without employing any kind of Biblical hermaneutic to determine if what she's saying is scriptural or not, is it any wonder our Christianity in America is so incredibly shallow? I guess when you sit on a $23,000 toilet you can most anything and get away with it.

I've been in foreign countries where people live in cardboard boxes, and do their business in a hole in the ground. I wonder how the promise of a new car or fancy house would play in those places- where just getting food for their next meal is their greatest challenge. Oh, I forgot- the only reason they live that way is because, "They don't have enough faith!"

Scripture declares "it is time for judgment to begin with the Family of God." While I'm not a proponent of the Senate interferring in church business, this may be one of those times when Washington REALLY IS being directed by the Hand of God!