All churches have stewards and auditors to count their offering
each week. There is always a procedure in which moneys are handled.
This really isn't very controversial or difficult to
understand.
The difficulty, which is what I think this thread is all about, is
the spending of this money.
Church money goes towards the following categories (non-exhaustive
list.)
Salaries and wages - for pastors and church admin staff. Depending
on church organisations, some has a wage structure because such
churches are part of a larger organisation, ie Methodist and
Anglican. Others are mega churches that may not need to answer to
any higher bodies. This will probably rely on the board of
governors to determine.
Administration - the regular bills, electricity, water cleaning
etc. Usually taken care by the church building committee.
Missionary - contribution to missionaries and various
ministry.
The red-tape in churches can be as bad as any other
organisations.
The point is, at the background, there is no greedy individual with
a evil laughter in a locked room somewhere in a church glaring a
the offering bag each week. Most churches are not run by an
individual.
When I said that those who want to find dirt will always find it, I
do not mean that Christians are not vigilant when handling our own
folks, we are extemely vigilant and I have been in committees that
scrutinise an individual's expense voucher.
I meant that for anyone looking for negative aspect on anything
that they do not agree on will always find it. So let's all be
objective.
