Q & A: Sunday’s Collection Plate…. YUCK!!
Q: Why “yuck”?
A: Several reasons.
Q: How about…. umm…. just three?
A: #1. It’s said they’re collecting ‘donations’.
Q: Aren’t they?
A: They collect payment for services rendered.
Q: Like salaries? Like paying for janitorial services?
A: And the mortgage, and electricity, and etceteras.
Q: So people are merely giving to themselves?
A: Mostly.
Q: And # 2?
A: They don’t know how their money is spent.
Q: Don’t people realize pastors are salaried?
A: They don’t know the scope of those salaries.
Q: Or the cost of the mortgage, etcetera?
A: Pew-people trust leadership.
Q: Is trusting leadership so foolish?
A: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man.”
Q: Including pastors?
A: Well yeah.
Q: And #3?
A: People are never admonished to seek the Holy
Spirit to direct their giving.
Q: Why is that?
A: The Holy Spirit doesn’t finance salaries.