September 21, 2006
Not Invested
For some time now the leaders have been nurturing a little nest egg that has grown to a considerable size. Rather than investing the church money in an FDIC insured account, the elder’s elected to sock it away in unsecured funds. In justification they’ve explained they’re investing in a California institution that helps build other churches. “It’s going to help grow God’s kingdom, whereas, if we stick it in a local bank, we don’t know where it’s being used. Even though it’s not insured, we think it is a better use [for the money].” Personally I think their decision is unwise, but that’s beside the point. I have no emotional or spiritual connection to ‘their’ nest egg, because we, the congregation, have had no part of its conception, or in its on-going incubation. We have no ownership, nor will we have any voice in how the nest egg is spent. When the egg hatches I suppose the leaders will expect us to ooh, ahh and pay child support.
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Gail;
----I don't think the congregation even knew the egg had been laid until recently. About half a year after I knew of its having been laid, I was honored to be at a finance committee meeting with one of the elders. This egg came up for discusion, of course. There was much concern amongst the members of the committee regarding its uninsured position.
----Now I didn't completely share that same concern. I felt that the egg's having been laid in the first place was evidence that the hen had been messing around with some strange rooster's idea. If she had remained Biblical in her thinking, she would have been using the chicken feed to serve the saints (that is what serving the Lord is) rather than letting it store up for the making of an egg. So I figured the egg should not really have existed in the first place.
----But the egg does exist. It has been off in some other hen's nest lending service to the Lord there. And that's ok. So if something bad happens and it gets scrambled before coming home, it could be considered as a contribution to the service of the Lord, since that is what it has doing while gone from its own nest. Besides, all the hen feeders thought they were contributing to current expenditures anyway when they kept pouring their chicken feed before the hoarding hen.
----When I offered the suggestion to this elder that they inform the congregation about the existence of the egg and then prepare everyones minds to perceive as a contribution the possible frying of the egg, I got the oddest smile.
----But as you said, Gail, this egg belongs to the hen. If she had been faithful to the Scriptures with all that chicken feed she stored up into the egg, many needy saints would have been having yoke on their chins for some time now.
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