Simply-Christian

Justice Prima’s comment today over at Ministry Watchman:

Ligonier isn’t a business. It’s a nonprofit ministry which is funded by donations.

This one is gold:

The very basic facts covered in that statement seem to be completely eluding LIgonier supporters.
I really do not know what to think of their confusion. If it is because Ligonier supporters are simply unable to understand the difference between a for-profit business and a nonprofit ministry, they are thus to be pitied.

If it is because they simply won’t, then I suppose they merit the sort of pity given to Simon the Magus.

We are called to be stewards, and I am trying to envision somebody before God explaining why they thought it more important to support a ‘ministry’ paying its officers quarter of a million dollar salaries and housing them in gated communities, rather than to use such funds as they have to visit the sick, to care for orphans and widows, to support missionaries living on the razor’s edge of poverty and danger, to support the elders of their local congregation, and to supply Bibles to those who do not have them.

Can you see Paul taking in a quarter of a million dollars and using it to buy a mansion in a gated community and then asking for more donations? Do you see Peter living like this? Can you imagine Joseph of Arimethea asking his fellow believers for donations to help pay for the tomb he provided and all the associated expenses for that?

Ligonier is, IMO, a symptom of something very wrong with American Christendom.

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