Doug Giles wrote an article about how churches and their pastor/minister takes advantage of their tax exclusive business. He explains the reason why church members went to another church ...
...the reason they fled Babylon was because they found out that their
pastor had an elder-approved clothing budget of $60,000 a year built
into his financial perks for pastoring. What a dandy. Sounds just like
the lowly Nazarene, eh? Five grand a month? Really, dude? Oh, and I
almost forgot, he also never wears the same clothes twice when he
appears on stage on Sundays. Who does he think he is? Mariah Carey? ... As a 51year-old I’ve had it with the Christian Glitterati obsessed with
“success” using ministry as a means to get rich, wear Rolexes and play
like they're Ryan Seacrest.
For what it’s worth, my brethren, here’s my advice to saints who might find themselves in a similar silly church situation.
- If your male pastor wears diamond stud earrings, leave.
- If your pastor is forty-plus years old and bleaches the tips of his hair blond, leave.
- If your pastor wears more hair gel than all five guys in the boy band One Direction, leave.
- If your pastor has a church funded clothing budget of any amount, especially a sixty grand a year allowance, leave.
- If your pastor quotes Oprah more than Obadiah, leave.
- If your pastor sounds more like Tony Robbins than the Apostle Paul, leave.
A Madison County school board voted unanimously to alter a monument at the
entrance of a Georgia high school football stadium in order to remove
biblical scripture. The monument was erected in August and two
different groups sent letters to the school stating that the monument
violates the separation of church and state, demanding it be removed.
There were two references to scriptures: