Salvation for sale, corporate Christianity....

I have been a believer for most of my life, and have attended churches both large and small. I have noticed in the past several years that the "Business" side of being a church has become mired in corporate greed and bottom lines. The "Success" of the church, instead of being gauged in souls saved, and lives repaired, has been replaced with items that can be tallied in an Excel spreadsheet.

In my very humble opinion, if the economic downturn that is going on currently has effected your church's bottom line, one of 2 things are going on. Either your church leadership has been spending money recklessly, and has forgotten to "Stock up the warehouses," or your church leadership has been too lax on preaching the necessity of tithing. When only a small percentage of the church tithes, it is detrimental to the entire congregation. The other possibility is that your church actually follows a prescribed business model, and operates a pyramid scheme, with salvation as the "Product."

I have personally known several ministers who view their church position as a "Job" that they are to perform on prescribed days, then live the rest of their lives forgetting that "Someone up there" is watching.

Enough for now, I'm getting more upset the more I think about it....