There is a fair amount of cash in our collection plate every Sunday. Some tithe cash in their envelopes, others drop checks, others just deposit cash with no request for receipt. I typically pay my annual tithe in one check at the beginning of the year, and then drop cash in my envelopes on Sunday as well. There are often special donation events (Deacon’s fund, disaster assistance, etc.) and I don’t carry a checkbook with me. The only reason I have my envelopes is that I keep them in the car.
BTW - the Disciples carried swords, so if having armed guards was good enough for Jesus it is good enough for me!
It is important to point this out, because starting hours after the shootings in Colorado Springs, the pro-gun people were on the radio in force claiming that the gunman was stopped by a private citizen who happened to be armed. This is false. She (apparantly with a law enforcement background) was armed and on the lookout specifically that morning because of the shootings that had happened in Denver 12 hours earlier. She was working (volunteering) as a security guard, she was not a regular parishioner who just happened to have a gun.
You’d think that somebody who gets killed in church would have a free pass straight to Heaven, and that as such they really ought not to mind if some random screwball takes a few potshots now and then.
The civilian volunteer shot him first and stopped any rampage he had planned. The coward did everyone a favor and finished the job when he realized someone was going to fight back. What a pussy. :rolleyes:
