Can you believe this shit?

[Wyrd of Gawd]

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Well, theoretically if she's just on the hook for $1,000 she's in good shape.  The biblical rule is for 10% of a person's gross income.  And the Fourth Commandment (Exodus 34:20) states that you have to bring something (nowadays that's cash) every time you go to church.

Remember how Jesus was checking out the people as they were forking over their money to the temple treasury.  He remarked quiet favorably about the widow who tossed in her two mites (pennies).  Of course Jesus never put in any money himself but that's beside the point.  Fork over 10% or swim in the lake of fire.

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Classic. "Do as I say, not as I do."

Well, there is a lot of fixed costs that have to be covered by donations.  Utility bills, insurance, mortgage, books, printing, stamps, etc.  Then there's wages.  Paul was able to steal from other churches but most churches today are small businesses operated by a couple of people.  If they do it full time they have to make a living in modern day America and that's expensive.  They don't have the guaranteed income fixed rules like the Levites had.  A lot of the megachurches as well as smaller churches have gone out of business.

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