Really? They have thousands of congregants and they live paycheck-to-paycheck?
I don’t believe it. Something screwy is going on.
I just checked the unemployment numbers for the counties that Saddleback churches are located in.
http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/
The Corona “campus” is in Riverside County which has an unemployment rate of 14.6% and all of the others appear to be in Orange County which has an unemployment rate of 9.4% so it doesn’t seem impossible.
Even before things crashed a lot of irresponsible people lived paycheck to paycheck. Now a lot of people who lived responsibly are joining their ranks.
I agree that there’s something screwy going on and I think it’s Liberalism.