As Christians awareness of the end times should always be in our sights. Fulfillment in our current life should always be present, but precursors to the end times will be so effective in reducing governments and businesses to extinction that Christians and churches will also be destroyed if not careful. This would not be much of a concern if economies were not already wavering with shifting winds of change that are occurring in the world. The more success there is in reaching the world with better living conditions for all peoples, the more every economies barometer is centralized and easier to waiver with opinions and event throughout the world. Living and existing within our means is going to be the only way to thwart off extreme economic pressures and they are sure to come in the most crucial period in history for faith based people and organizations.

It is fantastic to see and be a part of freeing suppressed and depressed people throughout the world. Stopping poverty and torture of our fellow human beings is a major part of what being a citizen of this world and faith-based people is all about. However, greed and faith do not mix any better than oil and water. One of the most difficult, if not the most difficult, parts of living in the current world is to avoid falling into the endless struggle for image and prestige. Brand names and big organizations are all about image and prestige and parents and leaders are promoting both with every move we make outside our need and means. Children and members of excessive parents and organizations learn to know no way of living without going beyond our means. Excessive living is the first casualty that will bring people and organizations down with failing economies. Governments throughout the world are losing their grip on inflated economies. Laws are progressing toward removing people's freedom to control our own lives. Even in the midst of pushing to liberate and free all people of the world, peoples' greedy focus is setting them up to fail and become slaves of governmental, business, and even religious clinching economic situations and ultimate failure of abilities to fulfill our responsibilities.

As an individual or organization; would you be destroyed if your income were cut by two-thirds starting today? Would your business cease to exist, your organization plundered, you and your members' independent abilities to work, get to and from work, and survive, be lost? Today is the day and now is the time to head toward the road of independence of inflated wealth and those who are freely blessed with God-sent gifts are to give freely, and eliminate charging for produce by those free spiritual gifts. Jesus overturned the greed-controlled sacrificial offerings of His time and the same sales tactics are being used again every time a price is placed on alleged faith-based song and ministry of all kinds.

A price on religious materials eliminates most people's ability and/or willingness to pursue them and is evidence of how little it is faith-based at all. True faith-based religious efforts and materials do not have any need to depend on pricing or require people to pay for their faith, and elimination of seeking image and prestige allows for the needs to be paid without charge, interest, or inflation. It is the filling of peoples' needs that will bring ample funds to produce ministry void of image and prestige.

Beyond the greed of image and prestige, diversities are the most deficient part of alleged faith-based organizations. Rejecting any "whosoever will come" is the greatest single cause of religious failure in history. Christian salvation is simple and has no additional requirements to reach our goal of immortality. Any effort  to add to requirements for persuing salvation is a destructive and blasphemous as any sin possible. "Requiring" people to change beyond those things which blatantly threaten self or others health or well-being, drives people away from reconcilliation that is otherwise freely available, and is in direct opposition to the way of reconcilliation described in the Christian Bible.

Image and prestige are the only reason to try to add to or take away from the simple, free, and liberating way of reconcilliation intended by Jesus Christ of little old Nazareth. There is not one additional requirement, and every person of every religion, lifestyle, and economic status is acceptable to being reconciled through Jesus Christ without any further expectations. Expression of true faith recognizes all peoples inability to be perfect, including our own, and allows perfection to come with our eventual permanent state of immortality.

There's no hope of perfection of any kind in mortal life and none can reasonably be expected. Humanity does not even know or comprehend perfection except by the simplicity of Jesus salvation. If a Christian or ministry requires someone of diverse religion or lifestyles to change but expects even one penny for ceremonies, services, information, or materials, or supports governments or business in doing so, it is the mote in their own eye they can't see or comprehend. It is this very same greed and lust for superiority that will cause the additional requirements by Christians and ministries to be reduced and enslaved to failing governments and businesses when they are needed the most; in the end times.
Matthew 10:8 . . . freely you have received, freely give.
Romans 11:29  . . . the provisions and motivation of God are without charge.
II Corinthians 11:7  Have I violated you by paying my own way:  I have preached to you the gospel of God without charge to encourage you?
Revelation 22:17-19  And Gods Spirit and People say, "come".  And let anyone who hears say, "come". And let anyone who desires God come.  And whoever will, let him have the unlimited Word of God without charge.  For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, If anyone shall put a price on these things, God adds the plagues that are written in this book to him.  And if anyone withholds for charges the book of this prophecy, God shall take his name out of the book of life, his place out of the holy city, and his part from the things which are written in this book.
Image and prestige are the only reason to try to add to or take away from the simple,
free, and liberating way of reconcilliation intended by Jesus Christ
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