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To: darrellmaurina

Don’t you think that when churches make decision, such as relocations, new buildings, it’s usually with $$ in mind?


432 posted on 05/26/2013 5:37:26 AM PDT by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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432 posted on 5/26/2013 7:37:26 AM by Theodore R.: “Don’t you think that when churches make decision, such as relocations, new buildings, it’s usually with $$ in mind?”

With regard to locations and buildings, I don't see what the problem is with churches counting the cost before starting a building project. Scripture addresses that, and while the passage is intended to refer to the cost of discipleship, it cites the analogy of a building project in Luke 14:28-33:

“For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace. So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.”

Certainly a church would be foolish to pay money it doesn't have to construct a new building or to buy land, but I'm not sure what relevance that has to the Boy Scouts changing its stance on homosexuals.

Changing one’s views of morality based on monetary offers is called succumbing to bribery. That principle would seem to apply across the board, whether to churches or to Scouting.

436 posted on 05/27/2013 7:46:41 PM PDT by darrellmaurina
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