(July 16, 2015 at 3:02 am)Spooky Wrote:(July 16, 2015 at 2:58 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: 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.
http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/orla...ure/nf8pG/
The lutheran church I was formerly a member of nearly went under after spending a metric shit-ton of money on an elevator maybe three people used. (the olde one worked just fine). I was in the minority when I voted against it.
Begging for money never sat well with me.
Well, if people were true Christians and real believers they wouldn't have any money in the first place. They would give it all to the poor, ensuring that the poor had food, clothes, and housing. Why should a church have to beg for money from its members? That only indicates that the members will end up in the lake of fire because they are stingy and don't have a speck of charity.
Speaking of Lutheran churches, I saw one of their more modern church buildings up for sale. It's members must not have been real believers. Luther would be so sad.
