Christian Snake Oil: Supersalesmen Pastors Are Getting Richer off of Your Hopes and Insecurities
I am a pastor and a blogger. As a result, I have gone to a lot of conferences, received tons of mailings and read quite a number of books and I have concluded that someone is out to sell you something you don’t need and that doesn’t work. Now, don’t get me wrong, my office and Kindle are loaded with books including quite a few from some notable pastors and leaders. However, there is a marketing strategy that has you and your church as a target and you and I have been encouraging it for far too long. original source unknown First, let’s talk about these men and women. They are Christian mega-stars. There are quite a few reasons that they became such and many of these mean that you and I will more than likely never be like them (in a few paragraphs, I may have you thanking God for that). One is that many of them were born into privilege. Some of them even inherited a parent’s ministry or road the coattails of mommy or daddy’s success....