What if church leaders, instead of softening a message to keep one businessman happy so he would give a $10,000 check every month, taught, with passion and conviction, 100 everyday laymen how to live a passionate life for Christ so each would tithe according to his own salary?

If the 100 could only tithe $100 a month of a $1,000 a month (1/3 of the average US salary) paycheck, then the church would receive its $10,000.

The 100 would have 2400 man-hours a day, as opposed to 24 man-hours from the businessman.

The 100 can do more in less time, touch more people, and have a myriad of resources to give.

But the 100 are still limited in who they can influence, because they may not be able to influence the same people the businessman can.

Now, in this world, you can have both, so include the businessman. Teach him how to be passionate for Christ too. Now you have $20,000 every month, a group of men able to passionately teach, lead, and serve, and an ability to influence most, if not all, types of people for Christ.

What would you rather have? 1, 100, or 101?

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Original Story on Newsmax.com By: Terence P. Jeffrey
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) told a crowd at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio, Sunday that he believes the Sermon on the Mount justifies his support for legal recognition of same-sex unions. He also told the crowd that his position in favor of legalized abortion does not make him “less Christian.”

“I don’t think it [a same-sex union] should be called marriage, but I think that it is a legal right that they should have that is recognized by the state,” said Obama. “If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount, which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, more central than an obscure passage in Romans.” (See video here) St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans condemns homosexual acts as unnatural and sinful.

Obama’s mention of the Sermon on the Mount in justifying legal recognition of same-sex unions may have been a reference to the Golden Rule: “Do to others what you would have them do to you.” Or it may have been a reference to another famous line: “Do not judge, or you too will be judged.”

The Sermon, recorded in the Gospel of Matthew, includes the Lord’s Prayer, the Beatitudes, an endorsement of scriptural moral commandments (”anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven”), and condemnations of murder, divorce and adultery. It also includes a warning: “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.”
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