ATMs and Credit/Debit machines have popped up in assembly halls.

[Jack Ryan]

Wouldn't Jesus throw out the "money changers"?

How is this allowed?

Yet we aren't allowed to even leave bags of produce outside the front doors for others who want/need them?

They don't allow members of the congregation to give away excess home-grown produce at the Kingdom Hall but they have allowed commercial banks to set up?

 

[Evacuated]

On 7/29/2018 at 7:12 PM, Jack Ryan said:

Yet we aren't allowed to even leave bags of produce outside the front doors for others who want/need them?

What a nasty country you live in!

"ATMs and Credit/Debit machines have popped up in assembly halls."

What's the difference between this and cash by the way?

[Jack Ryan]

1975 JWs Criticizing 2018 JWs- "A group of ten U.S. religions... have decided to try church collections by credit card."

From Watchtower 1975 11/1 p. 651

Insight on the News

“Pray Now, Pay Later”

The phrase “pray now, pay later” appeared in a headline of the Philadelphia “Inquirer” in reporting on a church experiment due to go into effect shortly. A group of ten U.S. religions, including some major Lutheran, Episcopal, Methodist and Baptist denominations, have decided to try church collections by credit card. The experiment, sponsored by the National Council of Churches, will encourage participating church members to authorize credit-card transfers of a specified contribution to their church each month. The idea, a Council spokesman says, is that “this will provide the local church with regular income whether or not the local congregation is in attendance,” especially in “off-seasons,” like summer vacation time. The report on the experiment says that those joining the program will be “giving unto business what belongs to business—a profit.” How so? “Participating banks will charge 65 cents a transaction, and the credit card companies will rake off 3 percent of every donation.” Obviously someone benefits, but how much spiritual benefit is the modern churchgoer getting?