I totally agree with you on this. Churches of nowadays only recognize active church members i.e those who pay their tithes and offering everytime.
He wants to see his name on their bulletin board with the amount he has given. And if the church he attended didn't have that sort of info on where the tithes and offerings goes, he won't give there but instead to the other church that has that kind of recognition although he attends there.
Religion is now a business in Africa, most especially here in Nigeria. You will always see churches in every 5-10 minutes walk.
I was listening to a sermon on radio yesterday and the preacher was saying that it's very bad for a church member to be using 4 cars while his pastors has none. I don't know why some men of God always feel entitled to part of people's wealth. They are adding to the economic crisis by extorting money from their church members. Because they know that once they cook up a story like buy this anointing oil, it will make your dreams come true, that's when you see them auctioning for the anointing oil. The highest bidder gets the offer.
Sad to hear about that, I've known pastors and preachers who doesn't even preach those words.
Like what they are preaching, they are also practicing faith. As they've said, God will provide and will certainly do the same thing for them but without standing in the pulpit and telling that it is convenient for them to have cars to preach to other places. There's always a way to commute to preach the gospel but that's really a clear thing that we can understand what that pastor want.
With that annointing oil, I already seen one like that before in my country and it's really pure business.