- Let's do some email.

Let's start with this one from Kevin.

He says, is it proper to usesome or all of our tithing

to support other ministriesbesides the church we attend?

Jesus said, "Whateveryou do unto the least

of these you do until Me."

I feel led to give to aministry that is helping

to feed and give water to the hungry.

- All right, look, thechurch is the body of Christ,

and it has many manifestations.

It has charitable groups,it has evangelistic groups,

you talk Ron Luce, he'sgot a bunch of work

for children, young people.

There're all kinds of, thereare educational institutions,

there are all kinds of, withinthe church there're all sorts

of things, and I know thissounds kind of heretical,

because it's been preached well,

that your tithe belongs to the church.

Well, it belongs to the churchof Jesus Christ, universal,

not to the local body where you belong.

Now if you've made a commitment

that you have pledged yourtithes to that church,

well then that's your obligation.

But you're free to do what you want to do.

So, is it wrong to giveto some charitable work

that's feeding the poor?

Of course not, all right?

- Good word.

Mitchell says, if you worry about someone,

is that a sin to God? (chuckles)

- You know, I had a godly mother,she was a wonderful woman.

She was a prayer warrior,and she used to say, well,

I'm worried sick about somebody, and I,

you know, you couldn't go to Mother

and say, dear Mother, that's a sin.

- (laughing) No, you can't say that.

- (chuckles) Have you heardthat, I'm worried sick about...

- That's a very southern expression.

- Is it (laughs) well,she was a southern lady,

and that's what she said.

But, you know, to worry is ofcourse a sin, but you know,

to be concerned about somebody is not.

All right.

- All right.

Tyease says, hi Pat, Irecently started attending

a new church and was lookingforward to becoming a member.

However, I just found out that the pastor

of the church doesn'tbelieve in the Rapture.

I have been taught and believe

that Christians will be raptured

before the Great Tribulation,

and I pray daily for the Rapture to come.

I'm torn about joining this church now.

Should I still go to a churchwhere I strongly disagree

with the pastor on this point?

- Well, look, this whole Rapturesthing has been distorted,

there's an evangelical seminary down

in Texas that won't graduate anybody

unless they believe inall this millennialism.

I mean, they've gottabuy that whole theology,

and that theology is frankly wrong.

Is it gonna be a Rapture?

When Jesus comes back again,

the dead in Christ will becaught up, will be raised,

and those who are alive will be caught up

to be with him in the air.

That is when he comes back to earth again.

That is the Rapture.

(speaks in foreignlanguage) means, I snatch,

and it's the snatching up ofbelievers to be with the Lord.

I'll send my angels and they'llcome and gather the elect

from the four corners of the earth.

That's what the Bible says.

Now, this other stuffwas brought in by a woman

who was giving a message intongues and interpretation,

in an Irvingite church, in about 1830,

and John Nelson Darby bought that stuff,

and then his disciples,a fellow named Scofield,

and he's got the notes to the Bible,

and that's where it all came from.

It isn't scriptural, Rapture very much so,

this other stuff isn't, phew.

Last question.

Is it a sin to play the lottery?

- I was so caught up in your answer.

(both laugh)

I didn't know, I was like, yes.

Okay.- Is it a sin

to play the lottery?

Hey, if you wanna take fivebucks and waste it, you know,

it's, if you have fundoing it, your chance

of getting hit by Martians(Wendy laughs)

from outer space is more thanit is to hit the lottery.

- [Wendy] Amen, well said.

- Don't think you wouldget any money out of it.