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Founder and leader of Perez Chapel International, Bishop Charles Agyin Asare has admonished Christians especially his congregants never in their life to glorify broke lifestyle in the name of Heaven. <\/p>\n
Addressing his congregants, Bishop Charles Agyin Asare reiterated that contemporary Christians should seek prosperity and stop misinterpreting portions of the scripture to glorify their poverty, making it emphatic that money is not an evil commodity.<\/p>\n
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\u201cA lot of the time, the world wants us to believe that once you\u2019re a Christian or if you\u2019re a pastor, you should only be teaching the people about poverty and they go as far as saying: \u2018As poor as a church rat\u2019 but God never had that in his concept when he had a church.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s important that, as Christians, we stop making people feel that because they are poor, they are holy. Being poor doesn\u2019t make you holy, otherwise all the poor people we have in the third world would be holy, there\u2019ll be no need to preach to them, they will go to heaven.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cSo, we shouldn\u2019t make people feel that because they are poor, they are holy. It doesn\u2019t work like that. You can be poor and be a sinner just like you can be rich and also go to heaven.<\/strong><\/p>\n Bishop Agyin Asare explained that people often misquote the Bible by saying \u2018Money is the root of all evil\u2019. This, he said, is misconstrued, pointing out that what the Bible says in 1 Timothy 6: 10 is that: \u2018For the love of money is the root of all evil\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThey take the scripture where Jesus said: \u2018It will be difficult for a rich man to go to heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle\u2019 as another proof of their argument. So, they say that anybody who is rich cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201c\u2026Well, there are two kinds of people who can go to heaven: One of them is Lazarus, who was poor with sores around him [and] dogs licking his wounds; he went to heaven. And then there is Abraham, who also went to heaven and Abraham had silver and gold while he was here on earth. And if you ask me: \u2018Among the two, who do I like to go to heaven like?\u2019 I want to go like Abraham\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n