March 05, 2007
Love Offering
One Bible Study meets Sunday evenings in the church auditorium and is made up mostly of older folks. We used to put out an offering plate and the money collected allowed us to purchase materials, help out a missionary and even splurge on an occasional ice cream social. Disapproving of the way we spent the funds, church authorities ruled that our collections had to be put in the church’s general fund. Although I have no way of knowing, I’ve wondered if other small group Bible studies were placed under the same restrictions. The offering plate is now collecting dust. That’s one way to wipe the smile off the face of a cheerful giver.
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Is it love? What's being lived?
Gail;
-----This is one of the sadder stories I’ve heard. Certainly not in pain or tragedy, of course, but in the scars on the face of Christ’s Holy Bride, it is pitiful. These folk were all but attacked by the leaders of the church they built. But they held to their fellowship among one another after everything they related to had been cast from the fellowship of the church in general. Evidently providing amongst themselves a pittance for some good times was more than the jealousies of the domineering elders could bear. God help those leaders to understand that Christ called us to be servants to one another, not masters.
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