Are You An Investor or Are You Involved?
It was early afternoon when one of our members stormed into the room. I was setting up a ping pong table in the fellowship hall when he walked in. For 30 minutes, he scolded me about how our church spends most of its money on youth and children, while senior adults gave most of it. I explained to him the reason for the disproportionate giving from our children's department was because they weren't hiring many 3rd graders at the rubber plant. My smart mouth didn't help the situation, and so he slapped the ping-pong table, shook his finger in my face and said, "I'm telling you preacher, if we don't start getting some things for the senior adults we are going to stop giving. I want to see where all of this money is going." At least the man expressed what a lot of church people are wondering. "Where is all of that money going?" I would encourage you to watch the offering. But if you want to see where it goes, you're going to have to follow it fur