The church bulletin was plugging a retirement planning seminar; that's nice.... if you have a job and disposable income to put into a retirement plan.
Retirement planning is often a money-maker for charities (the local Christian radio station does those quite a bit), as they'll include a plug to include the church in their will and to do vehicles that spit out yearly retirement income and leave a remainder to the church once you assume ambient temperature.
I was reading a 2009 post of mine where an Akron megachurch I went to in grad school got dissed for being anti-poor; churches tend to lean towards the successful and can tend to ignore the poor, especially the poor that are already in the church, as such anti-poverty ministries are often seen as outreaches rather than helping the folks in the flock.
Of course, the Bible was on the case from Day 1-James 2 comes quickly to mind
1 My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism. 2 Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in. 3 If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, “Here’s a good seat for you,” but say to the poor man, “You stand there” or “Sit on the floor by my feet,” 4 have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
We can head there if all the church activities outside of Sunday worship seem to come with a price tag; $10 for this class, $30 for this Valentine's Day dinner, $17.50 for the book for that class, $5 for goodies at the teen outing (that's not my current church, by the way, but a image from a past church that shall remain nameless). The church is supposed to be more of a prophet center than a profit center and making church activities (a) have a price-tag and (b) have a default of "going Dutch" can scare people of lesser means off.
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