Pastors That Won't Make Heaven

By shawa odega

Their churches are among the greatest. They fly around the world in private jets, supervising their global ministries. Millions read their books. More watch them on TV. It is incredible to even imagine it. We follow them. We emulate them. We accept that they speak for God. But because we claim we believe does not really mean we do. Because we say we understand does not always mean we do. Because we think we see does not often mean we do. As Christians living today it is very important that we never allow ourselves to slip into the kind of self-righteousness that made the Ancient Hebrews reject Christ while he was attempting to bring enlightenment, out of Love, to their religion. Learning our lessons from the stories of the Sanhedrin and Jesus Christ we should never shut out spiritual enlightenment simply because it goes against what we have come to accept as the religious norm and practice of our times. Pastors That Won't Make Heaven takes a closer look at what Christian salvation means today – and what it should mean.  

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kalakuta Books
• Release date: May 12, 2018
• ISBN: 9789789628865

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To Whom It May Concern

Names and places here have been changed or obscured in some parts, for obvious reasons.

1 Kings 19:11-13 New King James Version (NKJV)

Then He said, Go out, and stand on the mountain before the Lord. And behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind tore into the mountains and broke the rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice.

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to my very good friend Professor Onyeka Nwelue, for sharing the blessings of Ogbuide with me, even when it was not so deserved.  Jesus Christ our Lord will be so proud.

Introduction

Their churches are among the greatest. They fly around the world in private jets, supervising their global ministries. Millions read their books. More watch them on TV. It is incredible to even imagine it. Yet among them there are some that won’t make heaven, according to the scriptures. It could be your pastor. It could be my pastor. It could be anybody’s pastor. It is not obvious now because they are doing so well – materially.

But don’t take my word for it. We shall soon see where Jesus Christ said exactly the same thing in the Gospels. First, remember that Christ himself was never a Christian and that Christianity, like every other religion, is not an end in itself. Every religion is a means to an end. We should never forget this. Christianity is just a vehicle to ferry Christians to eternity. But because we claim we believe does not really mean we do. Because we say we understand does not always mean we do. Because we think we see does not often mean we do.

As Christians living today it is very important that we never allow ourselves to slip into the kind of self-righteousness that made the Ancient Hebrews reject Christ while he was attempting to bring enlightenment, out of Love, to their religion. Learning our lessons from the stories of the Sanhedrin and Jesus Christ we should never shut out spiritual enlightenment simply because it goes against what we have come to accept as the religious norm and practice of our times.

In an open frame of mind we shall examine the rise of commercial Christianity: money and miracle Christianity, before our eyes. We shall also examine what Jesus Christ himself said about our now accepted bling bling Christianity.

I wrote this booklet as a Christian. It does not matter. I could write it as an atheist and still make the same point.

Contents

Foreword

1. It’s Christians against Christ

Questions to start with

Religion and life

As it was yesterday

The one enemy of the light

Claiming the voice of God

Spiritual rainmakers

2. God just called me therefore I am holier than thou

Top Cat pastors

Listen to me and obey, or else...

Tithe because the Bible says so

Re-interpretations!

Robbing God

Miracle slaves

A house divided

3. Heaven Plc

Commercial Christianity

The God that gives money

False reports from heaven and the case of two groups of saints

4. Who do you believe in?

Who do you believe in?

By any means not necessary

Choose well my friend

Epilogue

Chapter 1: It’s Christians against Christ

Questions to start with

There are lots of Christians today who already feel there is something very wrong with the way some Christian church denominations are carrying on their so called works of God.

Some of these Christians have already stopped going to church. In their hearts they could no longer bring their inner conviction to agree with the practices of the churches they see around them. They feel in their hearts questions that no pastor is answering in all the sermons, all the crusades and televangelism. They feel deep in their spirits a disconnection with the worldly materialism that is now the in thing among the churches today claiming the anointing of Jesus Christ.

Among some of these Christians the questions can no longer be ignored and can all be broken down to some basic ones really. Some of these are:

How can the shallow practices of commercial Christianity be allowed to continue claiming the only key to the sober spiritual depth of Jesus Christ?

If a pastor is making a lot of money and running a successful ministry does it mean that he is certain of salvation?

Is it right for us to start shaking every time the pastor says God told him (or her) this or that?

These and numerous other questions being asked by serious and thinking Christians today form the subject matter here.

We shall attempt to answer them all. We shall attempt to look through the Holy Bible again to find where things has gone wrong, if wrong is what things has gone in Christianity today. We shall look again at the teachings of these new age pastors and church owners to see if there are things in their teachings and convictions we should beware of, as Jesus Christ Himself asked us to do while he was on earth two thousand years ago or so.

Not everybody is asking these questions, of course. There are some Christians today who are not yet internally and spiritually mature enough to reach the rationality needed to ask these questions. There are indeed a lot of us who still believe and fear that whatever our pastor or Daddy G.O says is what God is saying.

But for those who feel the urgent disquiet of these questions we shall attempt to see if there is any sense in asking at all. We want to be sure there is no harm in asking.

Yet before we go on it is important to really understand the nature of the origin of human religion in general and the Christian religion in particular.

The Spirit Molecule

We are not sure yet how it exactly happened but based on visible and empirical evidence God must have used evolution somehow in the creation of the world. All the so called theories of evolution could actually be human ideas about works that glorify God through their existence alone.

Nobody really knows.

However, scientists have now revealed enough about human evolution and human nature for us to seriously consider that the desire to ever and always believe in something higher and out there has been wired deeply into the human gene. We have been created to develop the worship of God.

One billion years or so ago, according to genetic scientists, a great ancestor of humans, a unicellular organism, (a single living cell, like most bacteria) developed a genetic code that alone makes it possible for anybody to have so called spiritual