CHURCH:
FINANCES

Somebody else came in with a machine that takes wastepaper and crushes it into a bale. He said, “You announce to your audiences, ‘Bring all your wastepaper to church.’ We’ll bale it and you can sell it and have money to pay the preacher and keep the church and your missionary program going.”

I said, “Mister, over there’s the door. I want you to get to that door just as fast as you can. I don’t want my board to know that I even talked to you. If they even found out that I’d let you even make a proposition like this to me, they’d be on my neck. In this church, we go down in our pants pocket, pull the money up, take it out and put it silently in the plate. That’s how we get our offerings. We don’t bale wastepaper.”

Can you imagine when God sent His only begotten Son, the best He had, and His Son gave His blood, the best He had, and the apostles gave their lives, the best they had, we’d bring God our wastepaper?

1 Samuel 2:17; Proverbs 3:9–10; Malachi 3:10; Luke 6:20–38; 2 Corinthians 9:7–8

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