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08-14-2008, 05:42 PM
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Church Rejects $600,000 Tithe From Lottery Winner
Check out this article about a church rejecting the $600,000 offering / tithe the winner of a $6 million dollar lottery in Florida tried to give.
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/t...provider=email
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08-14-2008, 05:45 PM
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Re: Church Rejects $600,000 Tithe From Lottery Win
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Originally Posted by CC1
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Very commendable.
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08-14-2008, 05:46 PM
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Re: Church Rejects $600,000 Tithe From Lottery Win
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Originally Posted by Tim Rutledge
Very commendable.
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Very insane in my book!
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
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08-14-2008, 05:46 PM
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Re: Church Rejects $600,000 Tithe From Lottery Win
I wonder how many Apostolic churches would have turned down the money? 
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08-14-2008, 05:47 PM
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Re: Church Rejects $600,000 Tithe From Lottery Win
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Originally Posted by Tim Rutledge
Very commendable.
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How is that commendable?
The Bible says that the wealth of the wicked is laid up for the righteous (Paraphrased)
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08-14-2008, 05:55 PM
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Re: Church Rejects $600,000 Tithe From Lottery Win
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Originally Posted by Michael Phelps
How is that commendable?
The Bible says that the wealth of the wicked is laid up for the righteous (Paraphrased)
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He is not for the lottery so he doesn't want their $$. In a sense taking the money when you know where it came from, would be condoning it.
I can see it both ways. I'd probably take the $$ myself.
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08-14-2008, 05:56 PM
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Re: Church Rejects $600,000 Tithe From Lottery Win
I say the devil has had that money long enough!
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08-14-2008, 05:57 PM
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Re: Church Rejects $600,000 Tithe From Lottery Win
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Originally Posted by Tim Rutledge
He is not for the lottery so he doesn't want their $$. In a sense taking the money when you know where it came from, would be condoning it.
I can see it both ways. I'd probably take the $$ myself.
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My point is that all churches accept donations from people who are probably living in sin, I"m sure that they don't do a background check on every visitor that comes in and puts money in the offering. I'm sure there are alchoholics, adulterers, drug dealers, etc who contribute every day.
What's the big deal about accepting money from the lottery?
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08-14-2008, 05:59 PM
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Re: Church Rejects $600,000 Tithe From Lottery Win
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Originally Posted by CC1
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I have a Deposit Slip available from our church! I'd be more than willing to help them out with a place to deposit those funds. That would be a tremendous blessing to our current building fund.
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08-14-2008, 06:04 PM
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Re: Church Rejects $600,000 Tithe From Lottery Win
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Originally Posted by Michael Phelps
My point is that all churches accept donations from people who are probably living in sin, I"m sure that they don't do a background check on every visitor that comes in and puts money in the offering. I'm sure there are alchoholics, adulterers, drug dealers, etc who contribute every day.
What's the big deal about accepting money from the lottery?
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I respect the guys conviction. Did not say I 100% agree.
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