At my mom's house this evening, she was showing me the (glossy, 4-color, dvd message included) booklet from her church (Southern Baptist mega-church). They're planning to expand (again) & their budget for the new expansion is $52 million!!!! In the back of the booklet, it talked about ways to ensure your giving by doing things like: putting off planned purchases (!!!), not retiring & instead continuing to work instead (!!!), and giving your money as soon as you get paid (!!!). It also said that they could assure you of a closer relationship with God if you learned to open your listening skills to how He was leading you to give. (They inserted a quote from 2 Corinthians that talked about all the ways to exel w/ 'give' being the main item.) I also noticed that the drawing that showed the proposed expansion had some cars in front -- a BMW, a Corvette, and a Porsche (I think). :cursing: I'm not against religion per se. However, I can't call this religion. Too many churches, imo, have sold out from being about something spiritual to being about business (and total greed). Grrrr.

Totally, totally agree!