(October 24, 2013 at 6:39 am)Psykhronic Wrote: What about churches that are neither in Australia nor Anglican?
Well I can only speak for Baptist churches, but I suspect that most protestant churches are the same In the U.S. Most small churches 300 or less membership struggle every year to meet their needs and give to missions and help the poor. Most people would be astounded at the amount of money it takes to keep the doors of a small church open.
Larger churches 1000 or more active members probably do better because of the number of people tithing and giving to the church, the more people the better chance a church has for people that are wealthy in attendance. I know that one of the larger churches in the area looked to build a larger building because they had out grown the older building, to obtain the money the wealthy in the church had to pledge financial backing to get a loan to borrow the money from a bank, good faith money if you will. So even churches that have plenty of money coming in each month they still have to stretch their money to meet all the things they have committed to plus do the extras such as buildings and sound equipment and ect.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.