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Date Posted: 19:10:26 09/02/11 Fri
Author: George
Subject: Re: c-not-of-c Contributions update?
In reply to: LoisW 's message, "c-not-of-c Contributions update?" on 11:58:39 09/02/11 Fri

>What to do to make things look rosy?
>
>Just skip reporting months that don't come out ahead.
>Yesterday of the day before the c-not-of-c still had
>the report up for contributions in May which they
>claimed were over the goal. This morning they have
>posted contributions for July, which they claim were
>over the goal.
>
>What happened to June?
>--------
>
> >href="http://www.cofchrist.org/give/updates.asp">http:/
>/www.cofchrist.org/give/updates.asp
>Your Giving Helps Make Mission Real
>Contributors around the world gave an estimated
>$1,150,000 in World Mission Tithes in July, 10
>percent
>higher than budgeted. Your giving is helping move
>Christ�s mission forward. Thank you!
>
>Due to manual reporting by some jurisdictions, actual
>income may take several months to finalize. Numbers
>provided are estimates based on reports received.
>-------
>
>Submitted by Lois

Lois, that is an old Mormon tactic. I used to work for a Mormon. I once saw a copy of the financial report for his business over the previous twenty-four months. He had built a taj mahal office (sound familiar?) But the locals had become suspicious of him because of his high fees and his opulent personal acoutrements, and business had dropped off. During that two years, he had brought in more money than he had spent during months. And the black didn't balance the red.

You may recall after he had squirreled away money to leave town (to the tune of bouncing paychecks and every other kind of check) he explained his absence by telling everyone he was going a "mission" for the church. That was not why he had to leave the country. He eventually died of a heart attack in Kenya. But it turned out that the real cause of death was a drug overdose. When miscreance and felony trumpets its piety, it always resembles false religion.

Chuck Swindoll states that three of the thousands of false gods in America today are sex, material goods, and drug abuse/witchcraft/altered consciousness (known as "pharmakeia" in the New Testament.) The worshippers of Baal are always careful to point out that they are careful not to get hung up on money, and the worshippers of Mammon are very careful to point out that they don't have illicit sex. And the Bacchanalians excuse themselves by saying they pious because they have thrown worries about money and sex to the wind. And then there are the religious syncretists who will worship all comers, as long as no claim is made on their behavior.

If you doubt that there can be idolatrous worship in Christian churches, read your Bible and see where pagan rites and altars were set up inside the Temple of Yahweh, not by foreign invaders, but by Yahweh's own people.

George

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