Shocking example can be found at:

Pastor's Reneged On Deal - Tampa Tribune
If your mind has been polluted by listening to these teachings, then what is presented here will be in shocking contrast. Each one of us must continually make choices... What will we believe? What will we accept and follow after? There is no middle ground of neutrality. We join ourselves to one side or the other. Yes, it's that drastic. Jesus commanded us to "Follow Me." Are we going to seek to know Him, or listen to the 'other voices?' What did Jesus say, concerning our giving?

Matthew 6:3-4 But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

We are in a war here folks, and most of us don't even know it. The enemy of our souls is the master of deceit, and it is by deception that he twists and perverts the Word of God to make it of non-effect in the hearts and minds of the people. His agents appear as light-bearers. They present themselves as 'holders of the truth'.....all the while, being fully deceived into believing their own lies.

When we are carnally minded, we are spiritually deaf and blind. The things of God are spiritually discerned, and sheer foolishness to the natural man. Romans 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? We are all servants to something. Love of this world and the things of this world will end up in death and separation from God. We cannot love God and the world too. Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Mammon is the love of money. When we are operating in this realm, and calling ourselves Christians, we are no different than the Israelites of old when they longed for the things they had left behind in Egypt. Or Lot's wife when she looked back as they were fleeing Sodom before God's judgment fell destroying the cities. That entire generation of adults, that came out of Egypt....died in the wilderness, never entering into the promised land. Why? Because of their unbelief! Lot's wife was instantaneously turned into a pillar of salt....why? Because in her heart she loved the things of the city they were fleeing.... God sees the thoughts and intents of our hearts people.

How foolish are we, when we choose to believe the lie that God needs financial backing to bring about His will and purpose in this world? Psalms 24:1 The earth is the LORD's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. All things are already God's!! Whose example are we charged to follow? Jesus Christ, or these modern day scam artists, polluting His name?

Jesus said in Matthew 10:8 Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. I guess they don't have time to heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead or cast out devils, because there time is consumed with coming up with ways to build their own little 'ministerial kingdoms' in this world at the expense of the poor, the widows and orphans. We would do well to wake up and take a good honest look at just how these so-called ministries operate. They operate by the ways of the world. With slick marketing strategies, emotional appeals, catering to the fleshly appetites, promising that by your giving you will attain health, wealth and prosperity. All of this is an absolute contradiction to everything that Jesus taught. How can we be that blind? That we would fall for such blatant hypocrisy? What would the Apostle's have to say about such conduct?

1 Peter 5:1-3 I WARN and counsel the elders among you (the pastors and spiritual guides of the church) as a fellow elder and as an eyewitness [called to testify] of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a sharer in the glory (the honor and splendor) that is to be revealed (disclosed, unfolded): Tend (nurture, guard, guide, and fold) the flock of God that is [your responsibility], not by coercion or constraint, but willingly; not dishonorably motivated by the advantages and profits [belonging to the office], but eagerly and cheerfully; Not domineering [as arrogant, dictatorial, and overbearing persons] over those in your charge, but being examples (patterns and models of Christian living) to the flock (the congregation). [Amplified].

Titus 1:7-11 For the bishop (an overseer) as God's steward must be blameless, not self-willed or arrogant or presumptuous; he must not be quick-tempered or given to drink or pugnacious (brawling, violent); he must not be grasping and greedy for filthy lucre (financial gain); But he must be hospitable (loving and a friend to believers, especially to strangers and foreigners); [he must be] a lover of goodness [of good people and good things], sober-minded (sensible, discreet), upright and fair-minded, a devout man and religiously correct, temperate and keeping himself in hand. He must hold fast to the sure and trustworthy Word of God as he was taught it, so that he may be able both to give stimulating instruction and encouragement in sound (wholesome) doctrine and to refute and convict those who contradict and oppose it [showing the wayward their error]. For there are many disorderly and unruly men who are idle (vain, empty) and misleading talkers and self-deceivers and deceivers of others. [This is true] especially of those of the circumcision party [who have come over from Judaism]. Their mouths must be stopped, for they are mentally distressing and subverting whole families by teaching what they ought not to teach, for the purpose of getting base advantage and disreputable gain.

Who is benefiting from these seed faith teachings? The teachers. Who are living in million dollar homes, while claiming to care for the poor and down and out? The leaders. The world sees right through their shameful display. It is the church that has blinders on.

Where did we come up with the concept that the average lay Christian doesn't have to do the work of the Lord? That only the leaders of movements go out and reach the lost, while the bulk of the congregation work to support them? Where did the notion come from, that we can somehow absolve ourselves of our responsibility to keep the commandments of Christ by giving a portion of our income to support someone else's efforts? What makes us 'think' that modern man has come up with a plan that works better than Jesus' way? That is in essence exactly what today's church world has done. We have rejected knowing God in a personal relationship, and settled for substituting a mediator; a representative. Just like the Israelites when Moses went up on the mountain and talked with God. The Israelites were terrified by the lightning, thundering, and quaking. Exodus 20:18-20 Now all the people perceived the thunderings and the lightnings and the noise of the trumpet and the smoking mountain, and as [they] looked they trembled with fear and fell back and stood afar off. And they said to Moses, You speak to us and we will listen, but let not God speak to us, lest we die. And Moses said to the people, Fear not; for God has come to prove you, so that the [reverential] fear of Him may be before you, that you may not sin. The way of mankind is to prefer a mediator over a personal relationship. We have no fear of the Lord today. We have created our gods from our own imaginations, and the imaginations of others. Weak, pliable gods that must bend to our wills, and do according to our desires. Men wield the scriptures as weapons, in an attempt to control the people and substantiate their private interpretations. We hear a lot of 1 Chronicles 16:22 Saying, Touch not My anointed, and do My prophets no harm. But we see very little evidence of any genuine anointing.