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My husband would LOVE that...he's into online banking and automating everything, and quite frankly, our tithes would probably be less likely to be late if it was set up to automatically go to the church, or if he could just swipe his card.
Me...I'm not so sure...I guess the convenience factor is great, BUT...I think there's something to be said for bringing money in hand and giving it to the church. I wouldn't want my kids to donate money they've never really "seen"....it seems a bit impersonal. I also think it makes the church look a bit like money grubbers...wouldn't it make a bad impression on visitors to walk into the church and see an ATM machine? The secular world already suspects the church of scamming people out of their money about half the time. I think its better for them to see giving in the offering in the old-fashioned, traditional way as an act of worship, as part of the service.
I can see how it could increase giving, though.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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