Church One:
This church wants more people to attend. To do so, the pastor says to the congregation that he wants to see souls saved. But what he tells insiders is that he wants more money in the offering plate. He works with one person to purchase brand-new equipment for the church that no one even knows how to use. He has blueprints made to build a steeple on a building built decades ago because that is what a church is. No one at the church is to know about it until the plan is already in motion. A video is made showing how much they need to spend money with little attention to actual ministries or changed lives. All brings attention to the church and to the pastor himself.
Church Two:
This church has put something interesting in their constitution. It says that no matter what the income is in the offering plates, the budget for the missionaries that the church supports will never go down and will actually increase. If ever the church gets less income, it is the staff members that will get a pay cut, not the ministries and not the missionaries. They work to not bring attention to themselves but to God and servants around the world.
Both are actual churches I came across while doing an online search and real scenarios that were posted on their sites. Which church is more in tune with God and His will?
This church wants more people to attend. To do so, the pastor says to the congregation that he wants to see souls saved. But what he tells insiders is that he wants more money in the offering plate. He works with one person to purchase brand-new equipment for the church that no one even knows how to use. He has blueprints made to build a steeple on a building built decades ago because that is what a church is. No one at the church is to know about it until the plan is already in motion. A video is made showing how much they need to spend money with little attention to actual ministries or changed lives. All brings attention to the church and to the pastor himself.
Church Two:
This church has put something interesting in their constitution. It says that no matter what the income is in the offering plates, the budget for the missionaries that the church supports will never go down and will actually increase. If ever the church gets less income, it is the staff members that will get a pay cut, not the ministries and not the missionaries. They work to not bring attention to themselves but to God and servants around the world.
Both are actual churches I came across while doing an online search and real scenarios that were posted on their sites. Which church is more in tune with God and His will?
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But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.1 Corinthians 5:11
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