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Can A Pastor Accept Gifts? by ACKCITY: 2:56pm On Sep 12, 2016
Can a preacher, a man of God, pastor accept gifts, food or money when out to preach? Yes! Can a man of God accept private jet? Yes!

Matthew 10: 9-10, “Don’t take any money in your money belts- no gold, silver, or even copper coins. Don’t carry a traveler’s bag with a change of clothes and sandals or even a walking stick. Don’t hesitate to accept hospitality, because those who work deserve to be fed”

As at the time Jesus gave his disciples this instruction there aren’t cars or jets then, maybe Jesus might have asked them not also travel with their private cars too. Can you imagine, Jesus even told them not to go with a change of cloth, on a trip that could take weeks or months!

Obviously they won’t be using the same cloth throughout their period of stay; someone will provide the cloth they will wear. We all know it won't be possible for them to use the same clothing all through their period of stay. The same way Jesus asked them not take with them any money, that means someone will provide for them all the things they need to use money for, isn’t it?

He told them not to hesitate to accept hospitality, because those who work deserve to be fed. Pastors and men of God have taken up responsibilities of doctors by healing through miracles, they have taken up responsibilities of teachers and counselors and so they deserve to receive hospitality from these the people.

Also See: What is Wrong in Giving Gifts to Men of God?

I once said, people would spend several millions to treat cancer in hospital, but when at a single word of prophecy by a man of God they receive instant healing from cancer, they think that man of God does not deserve to be given gifts.

Yes, it is true that it is the power of God that heals, it is the power of God that the man of God uses to heal and perform miracles, but the same word of God says people should give to these men of God because they deserve to be fed.

As a member of a church or a beneficiary of a miracle or prophecy of a man of God, you have the duty of giving gifts to your man of God.

What you can give depends on how much you have and can afford to extend to that your man of God!

It is not wrong for a man of God to accept gifts from his followers. Jesus told his disciples not to hesitate to accept hospitality because those who work deserve to be fed.

Being fed comes in various forms, and like I had earlier said, what you give your man of God depends on what you have and can afford to give.

Hospitality is not by accommodating a man of God only or giving him food to eat alone. Hospitality to a man of God can be as much as buying him a private jet, so long as you did not steal the money to buy him the jet.

See more >>http://citofgod..com.ng/2016/09/can-pastor-accept-gifts.html

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