Wherefore Come out from among them, and be ye separate...
"For the love of money is the root of all evil; which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." (1 Timothy 6:10)
Did
you ever begin wondering if “going to church” was about raising money?
In some churches there is a constant drive for the raising of money.
There's a collection for this project. There's a collection for the
missionaries in some far away land. There's a collection for the
missionaries in some other far away land.
Once
in Florida I was studying with a neighbor who asked me about our
attitude toward money. It seemed like a strange question. Well, come
to find out, he had gone to church with his wife. . . (the man
considered himself an unbeliever). During the service they had taken up
a collection for the building fund. To make a long story short, they
didn’t get enough money. The preacher ordered the doors to be locked,
with the admonition that “no one is to leave the room!” They passed the
plate a total of three times.
Amongst so many of today’s churches, if you finally make it through all the contributions, then they start up with the fundraisers. They have garage sales, auctions, cookies, donuts, chili feeds etc. A few years back a law office sent me a letter promising us a large contribution if our young people would be sent out to deliver neighborhood fliers promoting his law firm!
Amongst so many of today’s churches, if you finally make it through all the contributions, then they start up with the fundraisers. They have garage sales, auctions, cookies, donuts, chili feeds etc. A few years back a law office sent me a letter promising us a large contribution if our young people would be sent out to deliver neighborhood fliers promoting his law firm!
