Let Us Separate Fund Raising From Revival Meetings In The Church

If you plan to organize a revival meeting in the church, let it be a truly revival meeting.

And if you also want to organize a fundraising program for any church project, go for it at a separate time; do not mix the two things.

As people attend revival meetings, they prepare themselves mentally to receive spiritual refreshment from the Lord.

Again, when people attend a fundraising program, they prepare their minds to give to God’s work on earth.

Today, revival meetings have gradually become the best times for fundraising.

This change in our operations today has caused people to develop the mindset of expecting fundraising whenever there is an announcement of a revival meeting in the church, rather than the normal expectation of spiritual renewal.

This new system has caused many people to stop attending revival meetings because they predict there will be fundraising during the meetings.

Do not misunderstand me; there is nothing wrong with raising funds for a revival meeting, but there is something wrong with using revival meetings for fund raising.

In those days, when someone is brought to the point of, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” during a revival meeting, the normal thing will be, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house” Acts 16: 30.

But today, when someone is brought to the point of, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” during a revival meeting, the normal thing now is “You must make sacrifice or sow a dangerous seed so that you can receive an immediate breakthrough”

An altar call for repentance of sinners during revival meetings has now become an altar call for seed sowing during revival meetings.

A sinner that could have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour at a revival meeting to become a child of God will instead be made to sow seed only to go back and become a wealthy hardened sinner.

Today, we have succeeded in producing so many wealthy sinners in the church that are becoming a stumbling block to the leadership of the church.

I strongly believe in making sacrifices and sowing seeds, but there is a time and season for everything under the earth.

Let us separate fund raising from revival meetings.

Let’s stop confusing people God brings to our path so we can guide them in life.

If we want to raise fund for any church project, let us be sincere to tell our people that we want to raise fund.

This is the practice of our founding fathers; let us not remove the ancient land mark.

“And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord commanded, saying,  Take ye from among you an offering unto the Lord: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the Lord…” (Exodus 35:4 – 5)

“And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work, which the Lord commanded to make. And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing. For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much. (Exodus 36:5 – 7).

When people receive the touch of God, they will not wait to be manipulated to give to God, they will willingly give to God from their hearts.

Yes, “Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power…” (Psalm 110:3)

This is the kind of giving that attracts God’s blessings that comes without sorrow.

May God bless us as we separate fund raising from revival meetings!    

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