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Listed below are comments made by Taraph between Sunday, 21st June 2009 and Sunday, 21st June 2009.

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Tabernacle turmoil 11:05pm on 21 Jun 2009 And I apologise for the equally messy formatting there. Stupid Preview misled me.
Tabernacle turmoil 11:04pm on 21 Jun 2009 Perhaps, Peter, perhaps, but your post before that was insightful and to the point (which is always better than inciteful and pointed, like so many comments on this blog seem to be - and so often the Christian ones, which leads on to what I'm going to say). The Church, as a visible organisation, bound to its buildings and charity numbers, is always letting itself down, but then, it always has been, from the more famous actions of Churches throughout the middle ages to more modern scams and overreactions. The Church is always shooting itself in the foot.
But, as the Church of Christ it is the successor to the nation of Israel, the people of God, and his royal priesthood. Lofty titles indeed, and yet, of course, the Bible tells the tale of how they spent their time shooting themselves in the foot. People are people, and Jewish people and Christian people are people too. We're all fallible, we're all sinners and we all make mistakes, often huge ones. The Church makes itself look corrupt, or stupid, or, even on ocassion, evil, and we wonder how God can be glorified, but hypocrisy, whilst never a good thing, is an inevitable sign of a fallen race trying to follow a heavenly code and is only to be expected. I take comfot in the fact that, whilst Israel was as bad, if not worse, in the Bible as the Church has been these past 2000 years in terms of 'PR' and doing the right thing, God still followed through on all his plans. God suffered, Christ died, but God's blessings still flow and his Will carries on.
The Church is a mess, but it still grows and God's will will be done.
Tabernacle turmoil 1:44pm on 21 Jun 2009 To Domjoly,

I understand the point you are trying to make agaisnt The Christian Hippy, that the money is God's to begin with, not theirs, but I think that it's important to remember that whilst the money you give is given to God and, ultiamtely, was his to begin with, Christians should still excercise discernment about exactly how this money is used, and that is not just the job of the churches and organisations receiving the money, but also the responsibility of individual Christians to make sure that they are being wise in their giving and not squandering the gifts God has given them to use. If Whitewell is not using the money they are being given wisely, then it is not only sensible, but responsible for a Christian to choose to give that money another way. They are still giving, afterall, not keeping it for their own use.

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