Question

Is it wrong and how would you tell a fellow Christian that it is, to get involved with some of these multilevel marketing things, such as Amway, where you set your sights on certain material things, and then come back and say it is all going to be for the glory of God, because when I get all of this money I will help support retired pastors or I'll do this or I'll do that?

Answer

Here I am!  But I am not going to retire.  No, it is all a question of motive.  Nothing is wrong with that kind of thing if your motive is right, and who can say whether the motive is right--the Lord knows that.  If you are in it to get the biggest car, and the biggest house, and the biggest ring, and the biggest gold watch, and the fattest diamond bracelet and parade.  If you working at Sav-On sweeping to do that it is wrong.  Or, if you are underneath a car and that is your goal--that's not a good goal.  It isn't a question of what kind of an organization are you in--it's a question of what's in your heart.  I know people in various multilevel organizations who have pure motives, unfortunately, those organizations (many of them) tend to corrupt their motives because all they do is to dangle materialistic goals in front of them.  There are people who resist that, and again it is a question of where your heart is.  My wife washes our clothes with Amway soap--great stuff, it's a good product.  I think it is cheaper at the Price Club, but I'm not going to. . .anyway it's a good product, and we get it from very lovely people and it is wonderful.