No it is’nt.
Do know how thin the margin gets for Mega-Church, Inc. when the congregations goes on vacation and is’nt there to “tithe”? Or decides that paying down the plastic used on vacation or putting some dough aside for the vacation is more important than dropping the usual check into the offering basket?
Sounds like a smart business decision to me — cut down on payroll, overhead, and the possibility that parents might want you to have some kind of summer program to badysit their kids now that the publik skool’s are out.
Yes, I think Judas was the one with this same attitude. What happened to the belief that God would provide?
This is not good no matter how you spin. It is a sin not to keep holy the lord’s day. If I miss Mass, I must go to confession. This should not be looked at as a business. What happens if someone needs some salvation or something? This is selfishness. I wonder if they also will not take a paycheck through the summer.
This is true for ALL Churches. What this particular community has forgotten is one of the Ten Commandments.
Perhaps the Willow Creek ministry should tone down its mega productions and limit itself to preaching God's word.
It does to me too, and makes me think that these churches are more a business than a church. We Catholics worship all year round, coming together every week (at least) in the common practice of praise, thanksgiving and glory. We do this because we are called to the Lord's table by his Word - to take the body and blood in his Name. Money don't enter into it. There are rich Churches and poor ones. It happens in Manhattan and New Mexico; marble floors or dirt. Summer or winter somebody is home to set the table.
First this is a Joke so relax. but all joking aside this would not be a good business decision at all.
1. closing would open the doors for other churches to serve the one who attend the most. leaving only the part time worshiper who also give the lest and cost the most.
The day when God says we can put on hold the work of the Kingdom of God and of Christ and of saving souls, I will find this a reasonable situation.