Questions & Answers
Questions 124 (COD Page 583)
Should or should not a local church take care of her own, of her–her local (own) responsibilites before taking care of foreign needs in other lands? However, after she... her...After she meets her needs, it is Scriptural for a local church to help in missionary work as she is able?
454 Yeah. Right. Charity begins at home, you see. We–we–we take care of our own needs here, ’cause we’d have...this is the church of God, or ever, your little church, the church of God.
Now, if you can’t even pay your pastor, you can’t even get song books and things, you shouldn’t be sending it somewhere else. See? But then after you got your church paid for, and everything, your debts all up and everything, fixed and ready and go on, then help that other brother that needs a little help out yonder, you see. Get a little...
455 I believe, while...if you’re making payments on your church I’d also have a little fund set somewhere for a missionary offering if the people felt like they wanted to give to missions. Cause a lot of people will give to missions when they won’t give to home churches and things. So if they don’t give it to missions, they’ll spend it for something else. So I’d say just have a little mission box, and I’d...That’s the way we try to do.