Funny you should mention money.
My daughter takes music lessons at a PCA church. My wife brought home one of their weekly bulletins. I was shocked to see that the monthly budget for this PCA church was something like twenty times the monthly budget for my bedraggled, old, velveteen bunny Catholic parish.
TWENTY times?!? (No, they don't have twenty times the membership; maybe 5 times if that.) Twenty times, and we're all about the money?
The sacrament of confession, BTW, does not involve a fee.
TWENTY times?!? (No, they don’t have twenty times the membership; maybe 5 times if that.) Twenty times, and we’re all about the money?
The sacrament of confession, BTW, does not involve a fee.
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What that says to me is that the Papists are tight with their money and the PCA gives joyfully, out of gratitude with what has been done for them by Christ.
PCA money supports missions, charities, etc. The PCA has more missionaries per capita than the very mission oriented Southern Baptist Convention.
I guess what I am trying to say a church much smaller that the Catholic church you are referring to is pumping much more money into God’s work. But then again, the Catholic Church does have much larger lawyer bills.
Oh, a couple of more distinctives. In the PCA individual churches own their building. They finance it themseleves. They pay the power, the mortgage. The individual church pays the teaching elder. Very little money is sent up to the denominational Headquarters and none of it maintains a palace or art collections.
If I am not mistaken (I might be), the PCA is a wrongheaded organization nearly as darkened as Rome. But, it was "headquarters" to which I referred. If you need us to post some of the gold-dripping chandeliers, paintings, clothing, jewelry, furnishings of the Vatican, we'll be glad to oblige. Then the problem might be clearer.