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Pringle protests that he doesn’t preach the prosperity gospel.
We’ve documented Pringle saying that Jesus died to make people rich. But did you know Pringle also teaches that Jesus was also buried and resurrected to make you rich? Phil Pringle gave this giving sermon on Resurrection Sunday 2012.
He teaches people again to sow money so they can grow money trees (1:36). Using a seed packet analogy, he contradicts the scripture Hebrews 11:1 he used at the start of his talk (2:35 and 3:07). He goes on to say,
“If He [Jesus] can beat death, he can beat the GFC. If He can beat death, He can beat any debts you’ve got in your world. All you gotta know is that it takes the sowing of a seed.” (3:56)
Pringle turns Christ’s death and resurrection into a financial principle in how to get money:
“The reason you and I are here this morning is because one seed was sown and one human life died in the ground and it’s risen again. That exact same principle applies to our giving here this morning. God has such a longing in his heart to bless you.” (4:19)
Finally, Phil Pringle encourages his members to give money as follows:
“And so right now, why don’t you and I get involved in a resurrection offering? A victorious offering! One that rises from the dead! You might say, ‘My finances are dead’. Well, here’s a moment to resurrect them. Here’s an opportunity to take the hold of a principle that God’s put in our hands.” (4:41)
This is not a biblical teaching and is completely disregarding the importance of Christ’s resurrection. Apostle Paul said,
“I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,” Philippians 3:10
Pringle clearly wants to know a Jesus and the principles of the resurrection so he can get money.
Pringle also teaches that money is Christ-like. In fact, it is probably safe to say that Pringle has great difficulty separating Jesus from filthy lucre. As his quote above teaches us: money dies, money becomes victorious and money rises from the dead.
Finally, Pringle prays to God in regards to this offering, “your ways are not our ways”. Who is Phil Pringle trying to deceive here? How is this God’s way? Does God really care about us acknowledging a principle that resurrects our finances? Or does God care about the way His Word is handled?
Please pray for those caught in this movement.
NOTE: SCREEN GRABS WERE TAKEN BEFORE 01/05/2012.
C3 Church Watch 
Jesus said you cannot serve God and mammon.
Mortgage your house, your cat and your dog and give to C3. If you don’t you will have an empty carrot patch.=manipulation by fear al la the Catholic church. Paying indulgences to pope Phillip the last. Yeah sure …and then you have thousands of sheeple in an even bigger financial mess!
Phil even admits in his book that at the beginning when he and Chris got married “the church” paid for their honeymoon. In actual fact the Barton’s misused church donations, given for God’s work, for the Pringle’s own enjoyment.Most of the flock, including poor widows, thought they were giving to missionary work. This blatant misappropriation of God’s money was a good introduction to the Pringle’s for their life’s work on fleecing the flock. Through things like this Barton’s taught them …”hey ,you can make money out of this outfit-the sheeple are gullible and will believe anything!” Phil soon realised he didn’t have to do a hard days work after all.
Anyway ,it wasn’t long after that the Bartons were unanimously voted out of the church.But unfortunately, as has previously been noted, they split the church big time, with the help of the Pringles. No way was I going to follow the lunacy so I stayed put at the AOG under stable teaching.
Interesting observation Gary.
Phil talks of seeds producing a tree.It’s possible that the seeds of deception were sown in his life in the AOG days.The first looney thing was Mrs Barton shoving them into marriage just after they were saved. They didn’t even understand marriage from God’s viewpoint. The upheavel in the church was disgusting when I look back, although at the time, with God’s grace then , I accepted it and focused on God. But the Bartons and the Pringle’s thought that the converts were their converts, their sheep. In reality Jesus is the shepherd and they were His sheep and the flock belonged at AOG. Many great saints in the church prayed for the inflo of souls.The Bartons did not save souls. They just happened to be in the right place at the right time.However they and the Pringles considered it their right to split the church and take over half the flock away.
In fact the night I was really challenged at the church and my friend Leigh Hoskings was saved was a Thursday night and we wandered into the beginning of the young people’s prayer meeting. They had two dedicated leaders and there were about 25 of them there praying for souls. The church also had a Tuesday prayer meeting praying for souls and on Wednesday mornings many old ladies-serious prayer warriors prayed their hearts out for souls.
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