Local Church Support

2 Corinthians 11:8 I robbed other churches by receiving support from them so as to serve you. 1 Timothy 5:16 If any woman who is a believer has widows in her family, she should help them and not let the church be burdened with them, so that the church can help those widows who are really in need. We have to realize that a local church's accomplishments will depend upon members' spiritual condition. The church's financial health will be healthy if the people are submitting to the Holy Spirit, who will give them fruit. Your local Church's financial income and expenditures do not determine the quality of her ministries. Quality is measured by the Christlike living of the church members. If Christ is reigning in us, we will be giving joyfully and generously. 2 Corinthians 9:7 says that Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. Remember the story about Macedonian churches? "And now, brothers, we want you to know about the grace that God has given the Macedonian churches. Out of the most severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity." (Second Corinthians 8:1–2) 2 Corinthians 8:19 What is more, he was chosen by the churches to accompany us as we carry the offering, which we administer in order to honor the Lord himself and to show our eagerness to help. There are alot of TV preachers who take elderly people money without guilt, especially widows. This is why we need ought to check their ethics. Mark 12:40 They devour widows' houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. Such men will be punished most severely." Acts 6:1 In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Grecian Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food. 1 Timothy 5:3 Give proper recognition to those widows who are really in need. James 1:27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. 1 Thessalonians 2:3 For the appeal we make does not spring from error or impure motives, nor are we trying to trick you. Titus 1:11 They must be silenced. By their wrong teaching, they have already turned whole families away from the truth. Such teachers only want your money.