Quote from: Fortify on Today at 09:24:21 PM

Quote from: Fivestar4everMVP on Today at 08:38:06 PM

A Ugandan Pastor by the name, David Ochieng is said to have shut down his church after winning money equivalent to about $140,000 through sports betting..

The church members came for their normal weekly services and were shocked to discovered that the entire place were locked, and the pastor no where to be found, the pastor was later contacted, and he confessed that he become a pastor out of greed and not because God called him ...

This is an interesting news to read, please read the full version of the story here -https://tribuneonlineng.com/pastor-shuts-down-church-after-winning-n100m-sports-bet/

The above affirms to the fact that many, are into what they do, not because they love it, or because its their calling, but because of the money they get to make from it, just imagine how many years this pastor have deceived his church members into believing he was genuinely called by God to serve as a pastor..

Now my question is, As a business or as a career person who is also into gambling/betting, would you quit your current business or career if you won the same amount of money from gambling/betting?
Be sincere and state your reasons for your decision..

Seems a bit strange quite frankly, as these sort of pastors are renown for milking a lot more money out of their congregation. I wonder how long he was preaching about being righteous and fearful, all the while he was gambling as a side hobby. He might have won $140,000 (or one million in local currency), but at what expense did it take to achieve I wonder and who's money was he spending to get there? I wonder if this really is such a ground breaking sum, maybe he is old enough and can use it for his retirement plan, he better be quite economical with it - while it sounds a lot it might easily run out after 10-20 years and because he's a gambler he might fall back into the trap and lose it all.

In the story, the pastor said he used 1 million(in local currency) to sign up for fixed matches, which for almost 1 year, he didn't hear anything from those in charge of the fixed matches, he said he almost gave up because he thought he's been scammed, but eventually, the guys in charge of the fixed matches contacted him and gave him a game with over 700 odds, he said he went all in on that game but didn't state the actual amount of money he staked on the game, at the end, he won over 100 million ( in local currency) which is equivalent to about $140,000 as I stated in the OP.

From this story above, I don't think he spent too much on the game itself, aside from the 1 million( which I believe to be church money) which he spent on subscribing to fixed matches.