Measure of our faith

Recently, a leader of the biggest church in Singapore was arrested. He used the non-profit offering for his wife’s entertainment activity in U.S.A., in short, for commercial. His crime hasn’t been charged yet but it’s a sad thing and I pray that non-Christians don’t stumble because of this issue.

This church is so called Mega Church (more than 20,000 members), this pastor lives in a luxurious house in America, and he travels in first class between America and Singapore so there was an argument against him. *I don’t want you to misunderstand this but this thing itself is not a sin. Many people in Japan and Asia thought they want to be a pastor like him.

I’ll introduce a story that I heard from a leader in Sri Lanka. When he was invited from a church in other country, a ticket of business class was sent to him. He told the church, “please send me a ticket of economy class from next time because I want to use the amount of difference for pastors here.”

When I heard this story, I thought I want to have faith like him. We can’t decide which one is correct or wrong (at least, I don’t have the authority to decide it.) because each country has different situation or the way of thinking. Also, we can’t imagine the person’s motivation.

In the Bible, it says people have different measure of faith but leaders have a big responsibility. When we judge something and when we think we are correct, we need to go in front of the Lord and pray. God. Search me and know my heart.

The Lord is our High Priest and a Chief Shepherd.

Psalm 26:2