Aggressive Tithing

In my observations of what the economy has done to the church (not the institutional church), I have seen that people are taking it out everywhere, but the offering plate. What I mean by that is instead of having more trust and a higher view of money in the down turn, the people are finding excuses and taking out their aggression on either their own personal relationship with God, church leaders, or a bad combination of the two. This just propels my hatred towards capitalism.

We can't have "stuff".

We can't be "comfy".

We can't be "happy".

We can't have our god.

Our consumer culture welcomes these ideas of having the newest stuff with their own version of a holy kiss. Christians have fallen into the trap with the pagan culture in our midst. We walk a thin line between worshipping God and money. According to Revelation, it would be better for us to be enemies of God instead of friends with the world and trying to maintain some kind of atoning relationship with the Creator.

So instead of letting this economic downturn cause our materialism to come out in full force towards God or the godly leaders of His church. Let us instead take out aggression towards the offering plate. Let's take out our anger or bitterness out on the money which has generated our disdain. Let's show God that we worship Him more than money.