Reply #96: Is your church part of a regional alliance? [View All]

[CornField]

When the plate is passed and you provide your tithe, what portion of it goes to regional or even national organizations?

What other churches are a part of the local ministerial alliance?

Does your pastor represent your viewpoints when he/she attends those meetings?

Has your congregation provided for community outreach such as hosting public seminars on tolerance?

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That's the point I'm trying to get across here, but everyone keeps turning this into a personal attack on themselves or their congregration. Each individual congregation is a part of a larger entity, which is often part of an even larger entity. To use the analogy of a community: your church is one block, made up of several individual houses. When you contribute to that block, a portion of the money is sent on to the city and another portion to the county and even more to the state and then, possibly, to the nation.

Therefore, each individual within the block is important to the state and nation. If enough individuals begin to demand the state and nation do things differently, there are likely to be changes made.

As for me - heir pagan - I live in the ocean and do not contribute to the block, city, county, state or nation. Therefore, I can huff and puff until my cheeks turn blue and will still be ignored by the larger powers that be.

That's why I say: "Take back Christianity!" If it is yours and you feel it is worth saving, then you (yep, even those of you highly liberal Christians in totally democratic congregations) need to affect a change from within. Because these horrible, violent, gut-sickening things are being done in your name - YOUR NAME!

Now, Praise Jesus and pass the Pop Tarts... I'm done trying to explain it any better.