PHIL PRINGLE: CORRUPT TEACHING & MANIPULATIVE GIVING.
Below is a transcript of Pringle in his sermon ‘Fighting The Good Fight P1’, preached on Sunday the 19th of January, 2014 (video being obtained).
Let’s analyse and review it:
“Everything you hear us preach up here isn’t by accident. We have thoroughly researched the opposition to it and the positive to it and it’s on a firm conviction and foundation of our faith of what we believe, in Jesus name, amen!”
Phil Pringle has been unashamedly promoting the false teaching about tithing for years. Below, Pringle declares what he and other preachers preach behind the C3 pulpit, “isn’t by accident“. If Pringle is openly admitting that what he teaches is not an accident, then how does he explain this ‘accident’?
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Is he prepared to admit that he lied to his congregation about God saying to Joshua that ‘Someone took the tithe’? Is he prepared to admit that he twists the word of God to manipulate his congregation into giving money?
“So when- when stuff comes along about tithing and all that, I’m not bothered by that! I’ve done the research!”
We’re calling Pringle out on this. There is no way he can claim he’s researched this field in depth and then go on to mislead the congregation about his ‘teaching’ on the tithe. He claims, “Everything you hear us preach up hear isn’t by accident”. Can he then play the ‘ignorance’ card once he’s exposed for defending such a heresy?
And if he truly believes this, wouldn’t this make the church view this man, behind the pulpit, as biblically illiterate when it comes to properly teaching on the OT tithe doctrine and NT ‘joyful giving’?
PRINGLE CAN SPEAK AS THOUGH QUALIFIED?
This leads us to the next outrageous thing Pringle states:
“I’ve viewed the opposition’s thoughts! RIDICULOUS, UNQUALIFIED THINKING THAT ARE CONVENIENT FOR STINGY PEOPLE! That’s all it is!”
The tithe doctrine has been refuted for years by scholars, properly trained men in leadership, in the pastoral office and in the fields of apologetics. It is a false doctrine that is peddled by Word of Faith cults or ‘wolves’ who want to fleece the flock. What makes this even more outrageous is Pringle’s own hypocrisy.
Qualified vs unqualified? Don’t you think that’s interesting coming from Phil Pringle considering the fact that he’s been ‘exposed’ for misleading his church into believing that his credentials are legitimate?
If there is anyone who is unqualified to be behind the pulpit – Pringle fulfills his own criteria perfectly.
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And for someone unqualified as Pringle, he insists he has the ‘right’ to brainwash Christians everywhere with his false teachings on this dangerous doctrine which shipwrecks people’s faith. In fact, he accuses Christians, that if they withhold the tithe from God, they are “cursed” and accuses Christians of being “the very worst of thieves“.
If Pringle has “viewed the opposition’s thoughts”, why has he only hurled insults their way and created straw men arguments? His assertions have been nothing but misleading eisegesis to keep people quiet and to keep his congregation bound by his legalistic manipulation.
PRINGLE BRAINWASHING C3 MEMBERS?
“With opposite doctrines and teachings that you’ll hear floating around now and then. They may shake you in mind and trouble you a little. But that’s so to drive you to reinforce your conviction about what you believe.”
Notice the deceptive technique Pringle is employing here. If his members are shaken ‘in mind’, he does not encourage them to do a bible study on the tithe. Instead, he insists that these ‘opposite doctrines’ only reinforces this false teaching that he wants his members to believe. This is brainwashing. He is not encouraging people to look at the facts. Instead he is appealing to their emotions as a form of ‘blackmail’.
Sadly, THE opposite doctrine that refutes his false doctrine is the gospel of salvation itself. In other words, he is conditioning C3 members to harden their hearts against Christianity to embrace Pringle’s own works-based religion.
And then of course, Pringle decides to plug his “colleges”.
To get yourself to an longline college or bible college. You can watch it online if you’re watching online now. Online. Online. Just go ahead and enjoy it.”
These colleges are all about indoctrinating people to fit the C3 system. Sadly, the emails and documents we have received from ex-students have confirmed that what they are taught is a poor excuse of biblical Christianity.
It is true that Pringle’s colleges shake people. They shake every penny out of their pockets, shake any truth out of their brain cells and shake any integrity out of their souls.
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Pringle later states,
“And uh- First all get a cornerstone of our faith, firmly established so we’re not moved and shaken. I see people get tossed around and suddenly they are believing something else that they didn’t hear at the beginning! Because there is always somebody trying to kill, steal or destroy your faith. It’s a fight to hold on and apart of that fight is to get yourself on a firm, unshakable foundation. “
Notice how he avoids making CHRIST and the CROSS the foundation of the Christian life. In fact, you can watch his entire sermon on his site. Any viewer should be concerned that Pringle refused to connect the ‘cornerstone’ with Christ and the foundation of their faith with Christ. That’s because according to Pringle, faith (mixed with the tithe) is the foundation – not Christ alone. It’s reinforced a number of times that the cornerstone of the believers life is the tithe.
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So why are C3 members submitting to an unqualified man who appears to be blowing immature ‘raspberries’ at those who have refuted the absurd tithe doctrine? C3 members need to wake up and leave this false teacher behind, with his false words and false credentials.
TRANSCRIPT
Here is the transcript:
“Everything you hear us preach up hear isn’t by accident. We have thoroughly researched the opposition to it and the positive to it and it’s on a firm conviction and foundation of our faith of what we believe, in Jesus name, amen!
So when- when stuff comes along about tithing and all that, I’m not bothered by that! I’ve done the research! I’ve viewed the opposition’s thoughts! RIDICULOUS, UNQUALIFIED THINKING THAT ARE CONVENIENT FOR STINGY PEOPLE! That’s all it is! That’s all it is! If the cap fits, you know like- the deal is, that you’ve got to know what you believe and not let yourself be shaken. God is building an unshakable church!
And listen, here’s the thing in Hebrews twelve, twenty six… [Pringle reads Hebrews 12:26]
Now here’s the thing, God’s gonna shhh- allow you to be shaken. With opposite doctrines and teachings that you’ll hear floating around now and then. They may shake you in mind and trouble you a little. But that’s so to drive you to reinforce your conviction about what you believe. To get yourself to an longline college or bible college. You can watch it online if you’re watching online now. Online. Online. Just go ahead and enjoy it.
And uh- First all get a cornerstone of our faith, firmly established so we’re not moved and shaken. I see people get tossed around and suddenly they are believing something else that they didn’t hear at the beginning! Because there is always somebody trying to kill, steal or destroy your faith. It’s a fight to hold on and apart of that fight is to get yourself on a firm, unshakable foundation. There will be weak areas in everybody’s faith. Everybody’s got a weakness somewhere. A hole. And so the Lord allows that to be a bit shaky there so you can reinforce it. And build it up and get strong in that area. In fact, some of the areas is that I’m the strongest on are the areas that I was weakest on. Simply because of that fact.
You don’t grow strong without opposition or resistance. Ask any fitness trainer in the room. Their gonna tell you that’s the way you build muscle.”
Tithing is not a command in the New Testament – we give out of love, from the heart because we are under a new unconditional covenant not the Old Testament law.
It’s good to see that you are reading this site, Phil; it’s probably the best chance of learning the facts that you’re going to get.
God’s truths are very simple, Phil; even a child can understand the message of the Gospel – that God freely gave his only Son to die on the cross and subsequently rise from the dead, so that those who trust in Him could be saved from their sins and justified in the sight of God. You have claimed in the past that you preach this true Gospel – that you preach Jesus, and Him alone. But that is not true, Phil, and you know that: your constant message is one that mixes law and grace, in that you would have your followers believe that they are compelled to “tithe” to your organisation.
Have you read the book of Galations, Phil? It says:
‘We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.”‘
Justification comes by faith, and faith alone, Phil – not by any works of the law, including “tithing”. So you are misleading people when you tell them otherwise – and by the act of burdening them with the yoke of tithing, you are deliberately contradicting the Word of God.
It is further stated in Galations:
‘Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.”’
So when you inform people that they are “cursed” if they fail to tithe, you are once again flatly contradicting the Word of God, Phil – because, as we can all plainly see, God has explicitly stated in His Word that Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us when he was crucified.
You say that you have “[…] thoroughly researched the opposition to [what you preach]”, but it is clear that your so-called “research” has not included reading God’s Word. The Gospel is *not* about money, Phil: it never was, it isn’t now and it never will be. Yet you refuse to accept this, and instead you continue, in your wilful ignorance, to set yourself up in deliberate opposition to God and to the knowledge of God, and you remain as stiff-necked as ever when confronted with the plain truth that you are wrong. Your conscience has been seared as with a hot iron, and your eyes are darkened to the point that you spurn the grace of God and portray the sacrifice of Christ as being of no effect, thereby blaspheming God and making Him out to be a liar. Your words are a snare and a trap to those who would listen, and you will most certainly be held accountable for each and every one who is led astray by your assiduous perverting of the truth. You need to repent Phil – and given that you are not getting any younger, you would be well-advised to do so without delay.
phil pringle:
“Everything you hear us preach up here isn’t by accident. We have thoroughly researched the opposition to it and the positive to it and it’s on a firm conviction and foundation of our faith of what we believe, in Jesus name, amen!”
“So when- when stuff comes along about tithing and all that, I’m not bothered by that! I’ve done the research!”
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Bible:
“even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which THEY THAT ARE UNLEARNED AND UNSTABLE WREST, AS THEY DO ALSO THE OTHER SCRIPTURES, UNTO THEIR OWN DESTRUCTION.” (2 peter 3:15b – 16)
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nfg
‘“I’ve viewed the opposition’s thoughts! RIDICULOUS, UNQUALIFIED THINKING THAT ARE CONVENIENT FOR STINGY PEOPLE! That’s all it is!”’
So Phil, I guess we can deduce from your statement quoted above that you think stinginess is not a good thing. Would you care to comment here, and let us know what you make of some of the revelations that have come out at Kong Hee’s trial, to whit:
(1) Kong Hee tithed faithfully – to *himself*. He was putting his tithe money into the so-called “MPA”, which turns out to have been his personal slush fund.
(2) Kong Hee, having solicited donations to the CHC “building fund” with a request to his followers to give “until tears ran down [their] face[s]”, promptly turned around and shovelled a lot of that money in Sun Ho’s direction. For example, Kong authorised the use of Xtron money to fund a party for Sun, the cost of which was $150,000, and he did that without the consent or even the knowledge of Xtron’s board members. $150,000 is a lot of money just for a party, isn’t it Phil? And all of it came from the pockets of those faithful “tithers” at CHC, many of whom are shocked and more than a little angry to discover that money they gave to purchase a building for CHC has instead been used to underwrite Sun Ho’s pop star fantasy lifestyle.
So do tell us, Phil: what are your thoughts on what Kong Hee has done? Do you think some of the people Kong defrauded in CHC might have been better off if they had been “stingy”, and had consequently refrained from giving their hard-earned money to him? What about the fact that Kong was supposed to be your star pupil, Phil? How could he have turned out to be a rotten apple – isn’t a student, when he is fully trained, supposed to end up being like his teacher?
And what about *your* lifestyle, Phil? You may not have been “stingy” yourself, but it’s more than obvious that out of the vast amounts of money that have passed through your hands, a fair bit has actually stuck to your fingers – after all, you live in a house worth $3.4 million, and you and your wife both drive late-model BMWs. Where did all that money come from, Phil? Do you, perhaps, like Kong, “tithe” to yourself?
…apart of that fight is to get yourself on a firm, unshakable foundation…
So what he’s saying is believe what I tell you completely and whatever you do don’t challenge, question or even research it. In fact, he even says I’ve done the research! so you don’t have to!
Then again I suppose if someone is inclined to hand over their hard earned cash to a guy with a very questionable Doctorate – and you don’t need to be a rocket surgeon to spot the risk that he got it from a diploma mill, they’re not likely to do a whole lot of critical thinking anyway.
Pastors Endorsing Kong Hee (China Boy) & Sun Ho (China Wine)http://my.mail.ru/mail/v1ilya/video/_myvideo/3.html
i find it fascinating even the heretical judaizer (aka: hebrew roots / sacred name) movement knows “tithing” was OT only, while word-faith’ers havent caught on.. nfg
Tithes was an old testament command but in the new testament it is a free will offering. Talk to a pastor in most churches and they will tell you they use the word tithes but is free will offering.
I dont give to the church every week but if we all just stopped giving even just a little then they cannot afford to function and cease to exist. My question is does your church still pass around the bags for members to give money??