Of course it's not true. I just thought I would bring up the thought. Let's see, to date we have bailed out giant conglomerates such as the insurance industry, banks, and the auto industry. I've lost track of the bailouts quicker than the government lost track of the mobile homes sent to Katrina that never made it to people who needed them. All I know is that week after week the news tell us of another bailout on the way. The common train of thought, laymen terms wise, is "bail out, or else." In other words, if we don't bail them out, life as we know it will cease to exist.
About 10 years ago our county of textile and furniture went belly up. The industries here continue to go out, as over 1200 people lost their job last year in Rutherford County through closings. The closing of businesses and industries here means there is less money, which effects the schools, the diners, the town shops, and yeah, this is what I'm getting to... the church.
I would like to put in for a bail out for the church. We have bailed out big wheels with their extravagant salaries and bonuses while the working man suffers. Sorry, but it is hard for me to feel bad for someone making a gazillion dollars a year while people here are earning $7.25 per hour. The church I pastor consists of 35% kids and youth. They bring a lot of excitement, but they don't have money to support the church. 20% are seniors, and 18% of the seniors are on fixed income. Of the remaining 45%, 15% are without jobs, and of the 30% left, about 20% tithe.
The political proponents of the bail outs have made their pleas and spoken of the absolute necessity of obliging them of their requests. To fail to do so would put our nation in jeopardy, they say. I would like to say, what about the local church? What about the light that shines so brightly in the community? What is a saved life worth? A saved marriage? What about our food programs, our outreach programs? What about our missions to third world countries? Where would this nation be without the lights on in the local church?
I tell you where we would be-- in darkness.
Of course this blog for a bail out in the church is in jest. There would never be such consideration of such a thing. I just wanted to get mind your thinking about the importance of supporting the local church with your tithes and offerings.
Pastor Ronnie
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You Bail Them Out, We Opt Out.
Dear, I should say Expensive Chairman Ben S. Bernanke,
All of Our Economic Problems Find They Root in the Existence of Credit.
Out of the $5,000,000,000,000 bail out money for the banks, that is $1,000 for every inhabitant of this planet, what is it exactly that WE, The People, got?
If my bank doesn't pay back its credits, how come I still must pay mines?
If my bank gets 0% Loans, how come I don't?
At the same time, everyday, some of us are losing our home or even our jobs.
Credit discriminates against people of lower economic classes, as such it is unconstitutional, isn't it? It is an supra national stealth weapon of class struggle.
Credit is a predatory practice. When the predator finishes up the preys he starves to death. What did you expect?
Where are you exactly in that food chain?
Credit gets in the way of All the Principles of Equal Opportunity and Free Market.
Credit is a Stealth Weapon of Mass Destruction.
Credit is Mathematically Inept, Morally Unacceptable.
You Bail Them Out, We Opt Out
Opting Out Is Both Free and Strictly Anonymous.
My Solution: The Credit Free, Free Market Economy.
Is Both Dynamic on the Short Run & Stable on the Long Run, The Only Available Short Run Solution.
I Am, Hence, Leading The Exit Out of Credit:
Let me Outline for You my Proposed Strategy:
✔ My Prescription to Preserve Our Belongings.
✔ Our Property Title: Our Free, Strictly Anonymous Right to Opt Out of Credit.
✔ Our Credit Free Money: The Dinar-Shekel AKA The DaSh, Symbol: - .
✔ Asset Transfer - Our Right Grant Operation - Our Wealth Multiplier.
✔ A Specific Application of Employment, Interest and Money.
[A Tract Intended For my Fellows Economists].
If Risk Free Interest Rates Are at 0.00% Doesn't That Mean That Credit is Worthless Already?
Since credit based currencies are managed by setting short-term interest rates, on which you have lost all control, can we still say that are managing?
We Need, Hence, Cancel All Interest Bearing Debt and Abolish Interest Bearing Credit.
In This Age of Turbulence The People Wants an Exit Out of Credit: An Adventure in a New World Economic Order.
The only other option would be to wait till most of the productive assets of the economy get physically destroyed either by war or by rust.
It will be either awfully deadly or dramatically long.
A price none of us can afford to pay.
“The current crisis can be overcome only by developing a sense of common purpose. The alternative to a new international order is chaos.”
- Henry A. Kissinger
What Else?
Until We Succeed the Economy Will Necessarily Keep Sinking Into a Deeper and Deeper Depression
You Bail Them Out, Let's Opt Out!
Check Out How Many of Us Are Already on Their Way to Opt Out of Credit.
Let me provide you with a link to my press release for my open letter to you:
Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, Quantitative [Ooops! I Meant Credit] Easing Can't Work!
I am, Mr Chairman, Yours Sincerely [Do I really have the choice?],
Shalom P. Hamou AKA 'MC-Shalom'
Chief Economist - Master Conductor
1 7 7 6 - Annuit Cœptis
Tel: +972 54 441-7640
Fax: +972 3 741-0824
THE UNITY OF GOD
"The glory that you gave me, I have given, to be one, as we are one. I in them, and you in me to be perfect in Unity, for the world to get from you sent me, and that you loved them as I too have loved you "(John 17,22-23)
Unity is one of the most valuable and beautiful ideas which are highlighted in the Scriptures. Appears implicit in the moment of creation when God begins to order selection, beauty, diversity, and life to things. Because the creation reflects the Unity of God.
Even the participation of the Triune God reflected Unit, when God uses the plural word "make man in our image, after our likeness" (Gn.1, 26). But the Unity of God is the one element that permeates so also in the man that he is "image of God" (Gn.1, 27). That is, does that image fit the man to be in unity with God, that God speaks to this subject and to God.
But God added a second unit in the form of a man and a bookshop in this loneliness. God created women to be both close to varon "one flesh" (Gn.2, 24). In this way there was a paradise in the perfect unity of man with God and of man with his wife (his neighbor).
Perhaps for this reason it is emphasized that the Lord Jesus as the great commandment to love God and love of neighbor (Matthew 22,36-40). The tragedy begins when these two types of unit were desecrated following the fall of man in sin. And because of sin by the idea of "unity" turns off the conscience of man. From here, the history of humanity is darkened in a series of events that make the man on a destroyer of all forms of unity. Despite the darkness that gripped humanity, God irradio again the idea of unity in some people such as Noah, Moses, Josue, David, Elias, and so on. However, obscurantism prevalecia more in the heart of man. But God had already devised a way in which the unit is made permanent, and did so with the appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ in human history. So that the Lord Jesus becomes an example of "Unity incarnate," the example of the true man of God united in perfect shape. Jesus is the light of unity that could remove the humanity from the darkness. But as the Unity of God aims to link back to men with their Creator, the unit has been, is and always will be the subject of relentless attack spiritual and earthly forces that oppose it. The Lord Jesus Christ suffered these attacks. His death apparently seems to be the triumph of the opposing forces on the Unity of God, but the resurrection of the Lord Jesus speaks more to the defeat of these forces and the resurrection of the Unit. From here the Unity of God begins to take effect on the fragile minds of men guided by the Holy Spirit, and takes its group with the appearance of the Church of Christ. Finally, the apocalypse describes the ultimate triumph of the Unity of God over all the opposing forces, and the exaltation of that unit that has always existed in eternity: God and the Lamb (Revelation 22:1). It also presents the final work of God on the conscience of man to forge unity in the idea of permanently improved over humanity (the sons of God).
No doubt that anything exists, the unit is the most glorious God who has witnessed the man because the unit is not only an idea but an attribute of God and that He would like to share with their sons.
So far I am allowing anyone to post comments on my blog. Please keep your comments limited to the subject at hand, and keep it somewhat brief.
Thanks,
Pastor Ronnie
Churches and the car companies are very similar. Most people need God, most people need a car. Unfortunately though, church and corporate leaders provide people with what those leaders THINK they need instead of what they TRULY need.
In less they change their model, both are doomed to failure.
Many people may need a car, but EVERYONE needs Jesus. And as a pastor's wife, I know that when people need help, they will call the church. Unfortunately, in these hard financial times, the first place people cut their budget is to the church. Please remember in Malachi that the Lord promised to take care of you if you give your tithes and offerings to the storehouse. May God provide you all of your needs according to His riches in glory, Pastor Ronnie and church family!
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