Pastor Mike Hurn Speaking Sunday
April 25, 2012 - 5:11 PM
Pastor Mike Hurn, of the Christ Community Church, in St. Charles, IL, will be the special guest speaker this Sunday for Missions Month at GNBC. Pastor Hurn who has been a chaplain to several pro and semi-pro teams will be speaking on “Sports as a Mission Field”. Pastor Hurn will be speaking in both the 8:00 and 10:30 am service.
This is definitely a meat oerffed to idols issue.Do we do background checks on all funds received? What of the dollar that was paid to a church member who slipped up and slacked off for an hour at work? How do we ensure that all our church members are giving the proper amount of effort at work when we've had such trouble keeping up with our church members? And what do we do about all the little anonymous donations of a few hundred or thousand dollars here and there for budgets, buildings and missions? If a church member wins the lottery, do we do church discipline until he gives it all away? To whom will he give it? Should they take it? Should he take it back to the lottery commission so it stays in the evil pot and never pollutes the good pot? What if we find out that two church members have bet on a sporting event and the loser has to give $1000 to missions?To be sure, I'm not a gambler and I don't believe we should gamble. I believe Christians should be instructed not to gamble. However, we are all sinners and as such all our gains are tainted. Taking money so explicitly ill-gotten is enough for many to question if a church is beyond reproach and they church should not be in that situation. If the money cannot be refused or returned, perhaps it is best to keep it out of the general fund and create an endowment or something that gives it the appearance of the redemption of purpose. In matters of the spirit, intent is everything. In matters of relationship, appearance is everything in order to properly communicate intent.Jim Pembertons last blog post..