2007-03-08 11:26:02 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Of course the Can. The question Will they?
2007-03-08 11:29:42 · answer #1 · answered by Starjumper the R&S Cow 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Think twice on this one. The cost of building is always going up, and a place to operate from is a necessity. The "place" must be adequate for the number of people being serviced, and comfortable enough to attract people (worshipers and DONATIONS).
It is said that it is better to teach someone to fish, than to give them a fish. If this theory is true, then the building of community "service centers" or churches seems to be a good investment. There is no reason that a well build church building shouldn't service a community for 200 or more years!
Even using the "Crystal Cathedral " in California as an example. The cost of that building seemed a lot at the time, but it was paid for by donations before the building was put up. The building ITSELF has attracted tens of millions of visitors, and their money. The cost of building that building now and buying that land would be 20 times more! And the building has been making money for 30 years, and probably will continue to for centuries to come.
Usually there are two sides to any issue.
2007-03-08 19:36:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Not in my case. I drive a 12-year old car and my bumper is being held on with duct-tape. We take in enough money to rent (we don't own a building) from a local Lutheran Congregation and pay an organist. I am paid barely enough to keep my gas-tank filled as I drive around to hospitals and hospices, etc.
Last month we donated $3000.00 to the Lakota Indians to pay for their propane bill and buy the Priest there a used jalopy.
Last Sunday we collected $500.00 for food and juice and lunch money for a woman who has cancer and has five children under the age of ten.
We gave away twice what we took in.
And God continues to work miracles.
2007-03-08 19:31:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Depends on where you are I guess...About a month ago some people set fire to three of the churches in my city and they needed like millions to rebuild...but I saw a homeless man a quarter mile from the church and no one was stopping to even give him a dollar.
2007-03-08 19:31:19 · answer #4 · answered by mrb1017 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good thought provoking question.
By the time alot of churches are done paying the bills, whatever is left over isn't usually much.
The ones that do actually work put the work first, then the bills get paid. God always provides somehow.
2007-03-08 20:19:58 · answer #5 · answered by Jed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Less on wages, and other perks. They have these huge churches in poor neighborhoods and these people really scrap to build them. Yet they actually do very little for the people. Except make some man the clergy rich.
2007-03-08 19:29:58 · answer #6 · answered by Ruth 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Churches do help people who are in need...... But you know they have to pay the pastors and the people who work there and ALL the bills.
2007-03-08 19:53:46 · answer #7 · answered by Me 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question is What Churches????
2007-03-08 19:32:22 · answer #8 · answered by CrAzY4ChRiSt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Noooooooooo!!!! Your asking a false institution, rejected of it's authority to cut corners on image. As it is what they say they believe is readily rejected by anyone reading that book conscientiously. Plus, govo needs an outward show the system works. Compound fracture there. The system, govo, nor the so called outward visible farce calling itself a church - works.
2007-03-08 19:29:54 · answer #9 · answered by vanamont7 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
My church does. It goes out of its way for any person who needs help. NO one is ever turned away.....
2007-03-08 19:29:26 · answer #10 · answered by Kerilyn 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Probably but it it not just up to us!! Could you spend more on people who need help and less on you
2007-03-08 19:29:14 · answer #11 · answered by bcooper_au 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋