The test that the bible gives us as to whether someone is a Christian is NOT that they preach powerfully....it is NOT that the prophesy and have great knowledge....and it is NOT even that they have great faith that can do mighty miracles (1 Cor 13:1-3)

It is that they LOVE the brethren!

John 13:34-35

34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.  35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."    NKJV
 

1 John 4:21

If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? 21 And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.     NKJV
 

It is not possible that you love the brethren in the church when you are prepared to stand in a pulpit and preach deception about them being required by God to give 10% of their income to you...or the local church which you lead.

1 Cor 13:4-8

4 Love suffers long and is kind; (what part of kindness deceives the children of God about their obligations to give money to you?)

love does not envy; (why then does the world largely believe that the 'church is just after your money')

love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; (those piously preaching deception on "christian" TV seem to have missed this scripture)

5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked,  (try asking your church leadership where in the New Testament it says believers are required to tithe....or that tithes are ever money in the bible ....or that anyone other than a Levite is allowed to receive tithes)

thinks no evil; (you will almost certainly find yourself labled as being divisive or greedy or un-submissive or offended)

6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; (how then can such extortion and deception continue in the church of Jesus Christ today)

7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.8 Love never fails.    NKJV

Brethren it is not that love has failed today....it is that the leaders of many churches worldwide HAVE forsaken their FIRST love ...in their ungodly scramble for the believers money!

Rev 2:4-5
4 Nevertheless I have this against you (the angel of the church at Epesus), that you have left your first love.  5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place — unless you repent.   NKJV

Look at Pauls warnings to the Ephesian elders in Acts 20.about covetousness!

out covetousness 

2 Cor 12:14-15
And I will not be burdensome to you; for I do not seek yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children . 15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.   NKJV
 

The world today cannot see the LOVE of Christ in churches because of the ungodly manipulative, deceptive and covetous behavior of the 'leadership' towards the members of Christs body.

This is demonstrated in the fact that much of church leadership is no longer GIVING....it is TAKING....and that by deception!

Matt 10:8-9
Freely you have received, freely give.   NKJV
 

There is no possible way that demanding money tithes from the income of congregations can constitute freely giving!