tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6643715.post6653967461319433102..comments2023-06-09T12:46:12.932-04:00Comments on The Voice Of One Crying Out In Suburbia: Where should our giving go?Arthur Sidohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03848508095612688493noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6643715.post-66933494121442023312011-03-08T16:19:35.998-05:002011-03-08T16:19:35.998-05:00You are correct. J.D.'s theology is severely w...You are correct. J.D.'s theology is severely warped to feather the institutionalized church nest. He get's his pay check there. He has probably never interacted face to face with a believer who would challenge his thinking towards organic stewardship. <br /><br />I went to his blog and found this comment: "J.D. is committed to the local church and to church planting, having undertaken the goal of planting 1000 churches in the next 40 years."<br /><br />I wonder what kind of church's he thinks can be reproduced at this pace? Churches that require a special building and a hired expert for weekly Bible lectures? It would take 10 years just to do one of these. In a wealthy country like ours we can "afford" a form of church that consumes 86% of it's own "giving" just to keep itself alive. Asking this form to reproduce, much less at a rabbits reproduction pace is mere human dreaming. Maybe in his view, other poorer countries can reproduce churches without these "essentials", but he would have no interest in modeling that kind of church leadership and life himself. You must model before you can reproduce into others. Dishing out information in one-way communication does not accomplish reproduction. It requires intimate mutual relationship. <br /><br />I wonder what percentage of his churches stewardship he is devoting to church multiplication. 2%? .5%?Tim Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09099983903222184138noreply@blogger.com