Reverend Ike Was Right! (On the Money)
This month has brought us the demise of Rev. Frederick Eikerenkoetter, the man better know as Reverend Ike. I confess that I had never even heard of the man before his death and hearing this entertaining story on National Public Radio but it immediately struck a cord with me and left me hungry to know more. The old debate about the Bible either condemning or condoning the rich has become tiresome to me, but Ike cut a fine figure, someone who unequivocally and ostentatiously came out on the side of the rich. Oh yeah, and he looked sharp doing so.
Whether or not you agree with his message is not within the purlieu of this blog, we need to look at him as someone who got things done. This man knew his audience and knew how to market. Ike reminds me of a natty Donald Trump, someone who made his own name his brand and then built his image around it. It would be difficult to imagine a more shameless self-promoter, although Shoemoney is definitely trying, but I give him grudging credit for being true to his message. After all someone with the gall to say something as outrageous as “The Bible says that Jesus rode on a borrowed ass. But I would rather ride in a Rolls Royce than to ride somebody’s ass!” can never be accused of not practicing what he preached. Also, if he’s wrong, he’s pissing of the Big Guy up there!
So, in honor of the great Reverend and his marketing prowess, I have below a few quotes that I scrounged up online.
“I’ve paid the cost to be the boss.”
“You can have the pie in the sky in the sweet by and by, but I want something sound on the ground while I’m still around.”
“Get out of the ghetto into the get mo”.
“If it’s that difficult for a rich man to get into heaven,” he would often say, citing Matthew, “think how terrible it must be for a poor man to get in, He doesn’t even have a bribe for the gatekeeper.”
“The Bible says that Jesus rode on a borrowed ass. But I would rather ride in a Rolls Royce than to ride somebody’s ass!”
“The LACK of money is the root of all evil.”
“Forget about the pie in the sky, get yours here and now.”
“Everything is a condition of the mind.”
“If it’s that difficult for a rich man to get into heaven, think how terrible it must be for a poor man to get in. He doesn’t even have a bribe for the gatekeeper.”
I watched this video and it is great.
We become what we think about, and everything we think we attract also.
So we must focus on positive thoughts instead of negative thoughts.
Its simple but it akes practice. Alot of people forget that
positive thinking is something you practice each day until you go to heaven.
Its a way of life.
The guys a stitch and he has a point. While I don’t believe that material rewards are necessarily the be all end all, they usually accompany productive life. As far as he’s telling people who have lived their lives without that they to can live with, I say preach it!
Yes Tyler!
He may go into obtaining materialistic objects more than any other preacher i have every heard, but he still speaks the truth. In terms of Thinking of ourselves as Money and attracting what we wan in our life!