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2위@DarrylWeathersil y a 3 jours

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”번역 보기

3위@TEAM__POSEID0Nil y a 3 jours

"A corporation masquerading as a church." As almost all of the stories presented in this podcast have illustrated, this increasingly appears to be a very concise and accurate description of the Church in modern times. With regard to the land holdings and especially the residential community development properties (such as the Aurora, CO land), one thing to watch for will be whether the Church (through Property Reserve) will follow one of the recent big trends in residential community development...namely, the "build-to-rent" trend, whereby the institutional developers/owners have no intention of facilitating home ownership for residents. The goal is to collect rent from day one and forever after in a wholly owned "residential community". It's easy to see that this is an updated version of the horrible old "company town" situations where workers (for example at a big mining operation) lived and worked in a town owned by one big corporation that controlled everything. Work for the company, shop at the company's stores, rent your housing from the company...and if you complain...well, if you know what's good for you, you will not complain. Similarly the "shrinkflation" of the actual Church (local community/congregation) social aspects also illustrates how the Church is cutting expenses in the very area that is SUPPOSEDLY it's main reason for existing, so that it will feel even LESS pressure to invest any small percentage of its rapidly accumulating hoard of wealth (mostly hidden from view) back to the communities from which it was extracted. Prophet Dallas's insistence that the Church is not supposed to be a "social club" ignores the reality that this has always been the essence of what a church is supposed to be. Of course not a secular, irreligious "social club" ... BUT definitely a social community of like-minded people who share basic beliefs and a common world view as a foundation on which they build a community in support of each other. CHURCHCO is a net-wealth extraction machine. The goal is always to generally invest LESS money back to the local communities and congregations than the amounts EXTRACTED FROM those communities/congregations. The difference between the amounts extracted (including all of the investment potential intrinsic to such amounts) and the amounts invested back (returned in some form)...is precisely where the massive hoard of hundreds of billions in assets comes from. The bigger the difference, the more money that CHURCHCO has to play with out of sight and without accountability. Things like "Road Shows" functioned as activities and entertainment deemed wholesome, healthy and constructive by a SOCIAL COMMUNITY looking for alternatives to more worldly and unwholesome activities and entertainment. According to Prophet Dallas, the "Church" has no business supporting such local social community activities (because such things would be like "social club" activities). Yep. NO BUSINESS interest in it.번역 보기