The Den of Thieves - The Model that Keeps Taking

The Den of Thieves - The Model that Keeps Taking

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Matthew 21:13
He said to them, "It has been written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer.' But you are making it into a den of robbers!"

https://www.pnwumc.org/news/how-churches-spend-their-money
HOW CHURCHES SPEND THEIR MONEY
1. PEOPLE ARE BY FAR THE LARGEST SINGLE EXPENSE
2. PROPERTY EXPENSES
3. PROGRAM COSTS
4. MISSIONS SPENDING
5. DECREASES IN GIVING HAVE AFFECTED SOME CHURCH BUDGETS

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13537243/Florida-teen-guns-father-executes-mother.html
Florida teen, 19, guns down his father and then executes his mother in front of cops responding to her desperate 911 call.

Many activities in churches
Superbowl parties at church
Conferences for men, women, couples, singles, children
Sunday School and Children's Church.
Missionaries
Serving the homeless
Feeding the homeless
Shoebox ministries
Pastors appreciation month
Sabbaticals

https://pastorserve.org/pastors-need-to-take-a-sabbatical/
Pastors Need to Take a Sabbatical

Why do we recognize the Sabbath to only make it optional in life?
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+2%3A1-4&version=CJB
Genesis 2:1-4
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, along with everything in them. On the seventh day God was finished with his work which he had made, so he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. G_d blessed the seventh day and separated it as holy; because on that day G_d rested from all his work which he had created, so that it itself could produce.

Here is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created. On the day when Adonai, G_d, made earth and heaven,

Why are we so busy on a day of rest? Why not prepare for the rest?
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+20%3A8-11&version=CJB
Exodus 20:8-11
Remember the day, Shabbat, to set it apart for God. You have six days to labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Shabbat for Adonai your God. On it, you are not to do any kind of work — not you, your son or your daughter, not your male or female slave, not your livestock, and not the foreigner staying with you inside the gates to your property. For in six days, Adonai made heaven and earth, the sea and everything in them; but on the seventh day he rested. This is why Adonai blessed the day, Shabbat, and separated it for himself.

Modern-day clergy sabbacticals are not biblical
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Leviticus+25%3A1-7&version=CJB
Leviticus 25:1-7
Adonai spoke to Moshe on Mount Sinai; he said, "Tell the people of Isra’el, 'When you enter the land I am giving you, the land itself is to observe a Shabbat rest for Adonai. Six years you will sow your field; six years you will prune your grapevines and gather their produce. But in the seventh year is to be a Shabbat of complete rest for the land, a Shabbat for Adonai; you will neither sow your field nor prune your grapevines. You are not to harvest what grows by itself from the seeds left by your previous harvest, and you are not to gather the grapes of your untended vine; it is to be a year of complete rest for the land. But what the land produces during the year of Shabbat will be food for all of you — you, your servant, your maid, your employee, anyone living near you, your livestock and the wild animals on your land; everything the land produces may be used for food.'"

The Temple was a place of provision.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Malachi+3%3A8-10&version=CJB
Malachi 3:8-10
Can a person rob God? Yet you rob me. But you ask, 'How have we robbed you?' In tenths and voluntary contributions. A curse is on you, on your whole nation, because you rob me. Bring the whole tenth into the storehouse, so that there will be food in my house, and put me to the test," says Adonai-Tzva'ot. "See if I won't open for you the floodgates of heaven and pour out for you a blessing
far beyond your needs."