ooh, look at Hillsong

[highlyeccentric]

The US evangelist Rick Warren, author of the bestseller The Purpose Driven Life, opened last year's conference by telling Christians gathered for the premier event on the Pentecostal calendar it was not a sin to be rich, just a sin to die rich.

Yesterday Gary Skinner, leader of Kampala Pentecostal Church and Founder of Watoto Child Care Ministries, told them how to spend their money and exercise their faith: tackling poverty and AIDS in Africa.

It was not the responsibility of celebrities, pop idols or government to mitigate poverty, but that of believers of the church, he said.

The "God of the ditch" was not impressed by the price of cologne, church doctrine or the number of times people attended church but by the way his followers practised and lived their faith.

-SMH today

It's an encouraging start, i say

Comments

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

it could definitely be worse. I don't agree with dying rich = sin, but it could be worse. I mean, just because you die rich doesn't mean you haven't willed it all to charities, or at least some of it.

By the by, bought Neverwhere and Smoke and Mirrors today :D

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

woot for gaiman :D:D:D

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

and woot for gay men XP