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Angels are not for sale, Paula White

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by Shane Claiborne.

I don’t have the bandwidth to respond to every absurd thing said by a TV preacher or televangelist or con artist. But this is an exception.

Paula White is not just a millionaire prosperity preacher. She is one of the most trusted Senior Advisors of President Trump and the newly appointed head of the White House Faith Office.

In this recent video she is promising miracles, superpowers, and even your own personal guardian angel… all for the low price of $1000.

You can’t make this stuff up. This is real. But it should not be normal.

Do NOT give this woman your money… she already has plenty. And if you already gave, please hold onto the receipt so you can get a refund.

Angels are not for sale.

I actually believe in angels, and miracles… but thanks be to God’s generous love, they are not for sale.

Trump-evangelicalism is a cult. It is dangerous, deceptive … and apparently very expensive. This heretical version of our faith does a lot of damage to true authentic Christianity as it distorts theology for the sake of wealth and power.

Rebuke it, in the name of Jesus. And don’t give Paula your money.

Angels are not for sale.

Shane Claiborne is a Red Letter Christian and a founding partner of The Simple Way community, a radical faith community that lives among and serves the homeless in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. He is the co-author, with Chris Haw, of Jesus for President. He has also written Executing Grace: Why It is Time to Put the Death Penalty to Death.

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There’s No Christmas Without Angels

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We have a lot of symbols for Christmas, and honestly I feel that neither jingle bells, snowflakes or Santa Claus are adequate representations of, you know, the birth of God’s Son. Angels, however, are.

Angels play a huge role in the birth of Jesus. Massive, in fact. This is yet another reason I believe that people without charismatic experience or theology won’t get what the Gospel is all about. You cannot have Christmas without angels.

First of all, the angel Gabriel visits Mary to tell her that she will give a virgin birth to the Messiah (Lk 1:26-38). Then, he visits Joseph to ensure him that Mary has not been cheating but that the Holy Spirit has conceived the child (Mt 1:21). As the Son is born in Bethlehem, angels tell some nearby shepherds that the Messiah has been born, and sings a angelic song about glory to God and peace among men (Lk 2:8-15). After the visitation of the wise men (who surprisingly weren’t led by angels but just by a supernatural star and prophetic dreams) an angel tells Joseph that he must take his family to Egypt to escape Herod’s madness (Mt 2:13). And after some time, Joseph gets to know that it’s clear for him to go back to Israel by – you guessed it – an angel (Mt 2:19f.).

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