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Originally Posted by NotforSale
I don't want to come across as being cold hearted here, but I don't have a lot of compassion for these kinds of pleas.
We've been through very tough times here building our Church. I'm the pastor, and one year we had a huge drop in attendance. I had quit my secular job right before all this happened. The bottom fell out financially. So guess what; I had to go get a JOB!!! 
We cut back, we made changes, and we did everything possible to keep the ship afloat, EXCEPT, beg for more money.
I'm still working today, running my own Insurance Agency and will do this most likely until I retire. In fact, my wife and I enjoy doing secular work (she works at the office), and I think this helps the Church to know we will take care of ourselves in the event times get tough again.
Rick Warren has a best selling book(s), a HUGE congregation, and a BIG budget. Stop begging, and start WORKING! People have a hard enough time making ends meat, and the last thing they need is another guilt trip.
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Hmmm.....I don't see this as begging. Saddleback has made significant cutbacks and they're still short. I see it as asking the congregation to help with the shortfall. Rick Warren takes no salary from the church and donates 90% of his income. He also totaled up everything he'd ever been paid by Saddleback and gave it back. They make a monumental impact in thousands of lives and I think the 900k request is a bargain. I'm going to send them $100. Their request for 900k is going out to a membership of over 40,000 so proportionately, it's not that much.
I've been to their services and they make no issue of the offering, contrary to the true begging I've seen very frequently in churches.
So I have no problem at all with their request.
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