Fund Raising (Was: Ken's "woman")

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>>>>> "KATHLEEN" == KATHLEEN DIMICK <kdimick@colsa.com> writes:

    KATHLEEN> Since you mentioned fund raising...
    >> me: You forgot to mention fund raising (making peanut brittle,
    >> tacos-in-the-bag, yard sales, bake sales, etc. We will do
    >> anything that is not illegal, immoral or indecent to raise
    >> money :-D)

    KATHLEEN> What are some H-F views on this subject.  I find no
    KATHLEEN> Biblical precedent to the type of fund raising that is
    KATHLEEN> commonly practiced in most Apostolic churches today.  By
    KATHLEEN> that I mean, most sell things to raise money for various
    KATHLEEN> church projects.  Or they solicit funds from non-church
    KATHLEEN> people.  What I do see in the scripture are offerings
    KATHLEEN> being received to alleviate the suffering of Christians
    KATHLEEN> in other congregations and the regular offerings
    KATHLEEN> received for the support of those laboring in the Word.

Well, do you see anything in the Bible *AGAINST* it?  I see nothing in
the Bible *IN FAVOR OF* flush toilets, but then neither do I see
anything against it.  So what should we do?  Accept flush toilets as
acceptable for our homes and churches, or reject them because the
Bible does not explicitly approve of them?  

The "law of the excluded middle" is a principle applied to the unknown
to permit us to deal with it in an axiomatic fashion.  I do not think
we can postulate that the unstated is either always bad or always
good, but rather we need to use wisdom to decide these cases based on
Biblical precedent.  The precedent that comes to mind here is
Pr. 31:10-31 where the virtuous woman did a number of things to raise
money.  Combine that with "sell all thou hast and give to the poor",
considering that any church that needs such a fund raiser is poorer
than it wants to be, and I view such fund raising commendable.

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