It’s a simple concept

If it’s free, then it’s God.

Spending money was equated to ‘giving place to the devil’ and repentance usually followed and someone was blamed for either secret sin, lacking faith, or the favorite of ‘did not pay their tithes’. In some extreme churches, Proverbs 6:30-31 was the anthem preached after spending money with the expectations of getting that money back sevenfold.

If a choice was to be made between the near new church van with 10,000 miles that cost money vs. the ten year old worn out 150,000 mile van that was free, you know which van the church would take?

That’s right, the free one. Why? because it was free and free meant ‘of God” and ‘God’s provision”. It did not matter that the church would have to spend lots of money needed for other worthwhile causes to fix it to be drivable (hey, some churches did not even go that far) because there was a mentality of the free that existed and continuous giving tactics of people buying the parts and providing the labor.

From part two of my article The Cain Sacrifice:

In fact, a principle I would like to refer to as “Religionomics” takes place within most of these churches. In “Religionomics”, there are five principles that occur when churches act in the “Religionomic” mentality, these principles of “stinking thinking” still in use in many churches today are:

* If we pay a cheap price for something even though it’s obsolete and it does not work and can be proven not to work by the God-given laws of Science and Mathematics, it’s of God.

* If we get something for free even though it’s obsolete and it does not work and can be proven not to work by the God-given laws of Science and Mathematics, it’s not only of God, but it is anointed by God.

* If we can procure an obsolete item to replace the beyond repair or previous obsolete item for cheap or free, we will procure that obsolete item. The world may install and use it’s replacement, but bless God, we are not of the world. Therefore, the obsolete item is of God because it’s not of the world and it did not lead nor usher the Antichrist to power”. (I heard this statement many times in my childhood in the Holiness church I attended)

* If the misapplied or abused cheap or free thing breaks down prematurely or breaks down at all, then the devil is attacking us and warfare needs to be done to fix the free or cheap thing by casting out the demon of breaking cheap and free things from the free or cheap thing. If we have to call the repairman to fix the problem, we gave the devil victory due to our “lack of faith” and we need to repent for our “lack of faith”. If the free or cheap thing is beyond repair, then the devil stole from us so therefore, we will take back what he stole from us and the devil will return to us sevenfold the free or cheap things.

* When we sell the worn out, obsolete, cheap, or free object, the value of the object is priceless and taking anything less than priceless is partaking a spirit of Esau by “selling out our God given glorious inheritance and birthright”.

I would like to call this church “The Cain Church”.