We attended a Max Solbrekken meeting in the late '70s. He is pretentious;
he is a phony like so many others. We listened to what he had to say,
which was not much. Many of these men speak of the work they are doing
and for which they need money. They want God to provide, yet they ask
you to do what they want God to do.
In his pitch for donations (which was almost all of the meeting),
we got up and left. As we were exiting, he spoke up and said to all, “There
you go. When people are asked to dig into their pockets, you find out
pretty quick what their god is!” I stopped for a moment, wondering
what to say. I had nothing to say, and we left.
When we got outside, we found the door of our Volkswagen kicked in.
I wondered if God was punishing me because I had not given money to
Max but that thought quickly disappeared. We knew Solbrekken was a
false evangelist. When we got home, I took the door panel off, pushed
out the dent and it was as good as new in a matter of minutes.
Watching TV years later, there was a panel of ministers discussing
abortion. There had been an event scheduled by abortionists for Mother’s
Day. Max spoke up in his religious manner, decrying the fact that they
should promote abortion on such a day.
As if that were the issue! Does it really matter what day one murders
or steals or commits adultery? And obviously, Max does not know that
the institutions of this world, such as Christmas and Mother’s
Day, are not of God’s making. So why does he, presumably a minister
of God, glorify these events? Is it not because he is not a minister
of God?