Comments on: Need? What Need? http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/08/need-what-need.html Looking for the 1st century Church in 21st century America Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:37:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jimmie Lee Kinghttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/08/need-what-need.html#comment-33123 Jimmie Lee King Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:40:53 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/08/need-what-need.html#comment-33123 It's amazing how many small Ministries and Missionaries there really are out there and how many are spending most of their time going to Church Buildings collecting in funds they use to live on even when at Home. We just had friends, a Missionary Minister and his wife stay with us a couple of weeks. And we have a couple friend in the Music Missionary Minister BUSINESS. I know their life styles, what they have, what they do, what they receive from Tax Payers, and what some have in CD's in Savings. I myself have been in Street Ministry since 1983 and have received less than $700.00 in gifts and/or doenations which we also handed out to the needy, we went over $40,000.00 in the red out of our own pockets in TWO years, but God handled that also as always. Don't get me wrong, I'm not putting down Missionaries and Ministries, But I find a great need of Missionaries and Ministry work needing to be done in most Saints little World around their own Homes and Neighborhoods. I find to many Missionaries and Ministries are on a most-of-the-time PAID TAX-FREE Vacation running around this Country and the World on FREE HAND-OUTS. Being Missionaries and Ministers does not mean one can not get and hold down a steady job as Paul and others did and do. To to hold a place in a Welfare Line for FREE-BEES, is not giving God to good of a showing in ones Ministry. ALL big Denominational have their Missionaries they sponsor over seas, small and independant Churches should maybe spend their time and money around their own neighborhoods, county country-sides, towns, cities. It's not a come to my Church thing, it a come to Jesus and let me help you in anyway I can matter. Now that is my opinion as we all have our own opinions, right or wrong in whoever's opinion. God Bless all. It’s amazing how many small Ministries and Missionaries there really are out there and how many are spending most of their time going to Church Buildings collecting in funds they use to live on even when at Home.

We just had friends, a Missionary Minister and his wife stay with us a couple of weeks. And we have a couple friend in the Music Missionary Minister BUSINESS. I know their life styles, what they have, what they do, what they receive from Tax Payers, and what some have in CD’s in Savings. I myself have been in Street Ministry since 1983 and have received less than $700.00 in gifts and/or doenations which we also handed out to the needy, we went over $40,000.00 in the red out of our own pockets in TWO years, but God handled that also as always.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not putting down Missionaries and Ministries, But I find a great need of Missionaries and Ministry work needing to be done in most Saints little World around their own Homes and Neighborhoods. I find to many Missionaries and Ministries are on a most-of-the-time PAID TAX-FREE Vacation running around this Country and the World on FREE HAND-OUTS.

Being Missionaries and Ministers does not mean one can not get and hold down a steady job as Paul and others did and do. To to hold a place in a Welfare Line for FREE-BEES, is not giving God to good of a showing in ones Ministry.

ALL big Denominational have their Missionaries they sponsor over seas, small and independant Churches should maybe spend their time and money around their own neighborhoods, county country-sides, towns, cities. It’s not a come to my Church thing, it a come to Jesus and let me help you in anyway I can matter. Now that is my opinion as we all have our own opinions, right or wrong in whoever’s opinion. God Bless all.

]]> By: Jimmie Lee Kinghttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/08/need-what-need.html#comment-33122 Jimmie Lee King Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:00:03 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/08/need-what-need.html#comment-33122 Praise God for all of you and Miss. Doris Buffett. If you seen what I live in, you would not only think it was insane to give when I could live better in a cardboard box. But the Lord keeps my Electric Bill down, my water comes from a Spring He opened up for me, and I'm Blessed when I look out my window and see the beautiful hills, trees and running creek. But my giving after much over many years to Churches and TV Ministries has came to a hold this past year or so. I give hand to hand and person to person to those in need, without them ever knowing my name, but understanding that it comes from the Lord, not me. It's not about me, where I live or what I have or give away. It is all about Jesus, it all belongs to Him, so it is all in His name we give and give it no thought. Again, thank you all and God Bless each and everyone of you who are just passing through this life, heading for a far better Land. Amen. Praise God for all of you and Miss. Doris Buffett. If you seen what I live in, you would not only think it was insane to give when I could live better in a cardboard box. But the Lord keeps my Electric Bill down, my water comes from a Spring He opened up for me, and I’m Blessed when I look out my window and see the beautiful hills, trees and running creek. But my giving after much over many years to Churches and TV Ministries has came to a hold this past year or so. I give hand to hand and person to person to those in need, without them ever knowing my name, but understanding that it comes from the Lord, not me. It’s not about me, where I live or what I have or give away. It is all about Jesus, it all belongs to Him, so it is all in His name we give and give it no thought. Again, thank you all and God Bless each and everyone of you who are just passing through this life, heading for a far better Land. Amen.

]]> By: Dan Edelenhttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/08/need-what-need.html#comment-33077 Dan Edelen Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:07:04 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/08/need-what-need.html#comment-33077 Arthur, I go to a church of about 280 people in a semi-rural area. Most of the people in that church work blue-collar jobs. A missionary came to our church a couple months ago and spoke. He left with $13,000 in support from the folks in our church. Is our church generous? Yes. Every church should be generous. Is our church rich? Not monetarily. Still, what that missionary received was typical. And at least three or four missionaries come through our church every year. So $1800 isn't pricey to me. It's the cost of doing without a few movie rentals or pay-per-view a year for a just a few families. It comes down to what's important. And people are always more important than property, personal entertainment, and all the trappings of the world. Arthur,

I go to a church of about 280 people in a semi-rural area. Most of the people in that church work blue-collar jobs. A missionary came to our church a couple months ago and spoke. He left with $13,000 in support from the folks in our church.

Is our church generous? Yes. Every church should be generous. Is our church rich? Not monetarily. Still, what that missionary received was typical. And at least three or four missionaries come through our church every year.

So $1800 isn’t pricey to me. It’s the cost of doing without a few movie rentals or pay-per-view a year for a just a few families. It comes down to what’s important. And people are always more important than property, personal entertainment, and all the trappings of the world.

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