Placing money at men’s feet

THE EDITOR: I read in your papers recently, an article where a foreign pastor came to Trinidad to host a conference and women in the audience were just coming and placing money at his feet. As a woman myself, I feel sorry for my peers. They are looking for the Elijah experience.

No doubt they believed that they were going to receive blessings in return. Well, they will be waiting for a long time. Besides, one wonders if those women are as respectful and loyal to their husbands as they show themselves to other men (pastors). Women, generally, are so easily led moreso than men. They would go and clean the pastor’s house and leave their own untidy. They would go for counselling and cry out their hearts to these pastors about their problems and not even discuss it with their husbands.

They would always clap and put up their hands to everything in agreement with what is said from the pulpit, without even thinking for themselves.
They would pay their tithes to a church which is not doing anything substantial for the poor and they would turn their backs on their family and other people who need help. But I don’t blame them or the pastors for not stopping them from putting money at their feet, because this is what they are taught to give to man and incidentally, I understand this foreign pastor has his own plane! Don’t worry, we copy everything from America. Some local pastor is going to come up with this idea and say God told him to go and buy a plane.

And guess what, the majority of women will believe him. And you know, Jesus was clear on what he said about giving. You continue in your ways and there surely would be a gnashing of teeth. And to you self-appointed pastors (not all), you continue in your selfish, greedy and dishonest ways and do not attempt to do what Jesus said concerning the poor and you may very well end up in a place where none of us wants to go. Remember the parable of the samaritan that Jesus left with us. Start feeding programmes for the poor like Pastor Lloyd Hart in San Fernando.

GWENDOLYN  ROBERTS
Carenage