{"id":9505,"date":"2016-08-17T00:48:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/churchfinances\/"},"modified":"2016-08-17T00:48:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:48:28","slug":"churchfinances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/churchfinances\/","title":{"rendered":"CHURCH:\nFINANCES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Somebody else came in with a machine that takes wastepaper and crushes it into a bale. He said, \u201cYou announce to your audiences, \u2018Bring all your wastepaper to church.\u2019 We\u2019ll bale it and you can sell it and have money to pay the preacher and keep the church and your missionary program going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>I said, \u201cMister, over there\u2019s the door. I want you to get to that door just as fast as you can. I don\u2019t want my board to know that I even talked to you. If they even found out that I\u2019d let you even make a proposition like this to me, they\u2019d 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\u2019s how we get our offerings. We don\u2019t bale wastepaper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>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\u2019d bring God our wastepaper?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>1 Samuel 2:17; Proverbs 3:9\u201310; Malachi 3:10; Luke 6:20\u201338; 2 Corinthians 9:7\u20138<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><i>Success and the Christian,<\/i> 126.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody else came in with a machine that takes wastepaper and crushes it into a bale. He said, \u201cYou announce to your audiences, \u2018Bring all your wastepaper to church.\u2019 We\u2019ll bale it and you can sell it and have money to pay the preacher and keep the church and your missionary program going.\u201d I said, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/churchfinances\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CHURCH:<br \/>\nFINANCES&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}