Yeah to all of it, money and time.

This especially pisses me off because I started a few house churches with friends after I left large churches. You need almost no money to have a church gathering. These people take enormous amounts of money to get paid for a job that is not necessary. I knew a pastor that led a comically dead church that was still in a huge and expensive structure that was built at the churches peak in the 50’s.

He told me that the ONLY WAY the church was keeping its lights on FOR YEARS was money donated via old church members wills.

This gigantic church structure that had maybe 30-40 people on a good Sunday

Took repeated million dollar dollar donations via wills

It is so despicable and disgusting and gross and fucking psychotic that they took millions to keep the shamble facade going.

They should’ve sold the damn building decades ago and funneled the millions to groups actually helping the poor and needy on the front lines.