No. of Recommendations: 8
This church spent less than 5% of revenues on charitable causes. The rest of the considerable revenue was spent on facilities upkeep and salaries. It's a social club.
My father was a Deacon of his (our) church. He eventually figured out that they were using less than 3% of “tithes” on charitable work, the rest went into heating, cooling, redoing the rugs, painting the parking lot, landscaping, and all the other things that go with running an organized social.
He was aghast, not so much that he stopped going, but enough that he resigned from helping the other church “fathers” run the place. He was a *believer*, but not necessarily a crazy person.
