http://www.newlutheran.com/2009/10/13/would-god-vote-yes-on-your-church-budget/ My story of being new in an old church... Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.newlutheran.com/2009/10/13/would-god-vote-yes-on-your-church-budget/comment-page-1/#comment-74356 Lutheran Chronicle Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:22:00 +0000 http://www.newlutheran.com/?p=106#comment-74356 Just a side note: The problem with specifying where your offerings go, is that it doesn't work. ;) If you want $100 to go to project A, and the church needs $100 for project B, they'll simply use more (as a percentage) of the rest of the congregation's offerings on project B to accomplish their goals (and, as a result, less of the rest of the congregation's offerings on your project A).nnThis isn't the church being tricky...in the way budgets are set up, it's hard for a church *not* to do this type of thing, even without realizing it.n Just a side note: The problem with specifying where your offerings go, is that it doesn’t work. If you want $100 to go to project A, and the church needs $100 for project B, they’ll simply use more (as a percentage) of the rest of the congregation’s offerings on project B to accomplish their goals (and, as a result, less of the rest of the congregation’s offerings on your project A).nnThis isn’t the church being tricky…in the way budgets are set up, it’s hard for a church *not* to do this type of thing, even without realizing it.n

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