I was looking at what was hot on the front page of wordpress today and noticed a post on entertainment in which a pastor got a lottery ticket and won 4 dollars, then posted it on his blog for his church members to see. Here is the site if you want to see.
Now I got to thinking a little bit, and thought why would a guy like this who is supposed to be an example to his flock put something up like this? Isn’t the love of money the root of evil? Well I am not saying the man loves money. But because there are people that have gambling problems, and maybe very well some of the people that go to his church, wouldn’t it make sense that he would be wise to abstain from doing something like this in order not to stumble someone?
I guess this just goes to show what this world has come to. Instead of being an example and maybe even not putting that up on a blog which is supposed to be about God, he is talking about gambling. But then again I just remembered that a lot of churches use gambling as a way to bring in revenue with bingo. They have to try to make it fun and playful at church because the lack of respect and love for wanting to be there is gone from people now.