The HeartBeat Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church High Point, North Carolina November 2015 Volume 23 No. 11 EARN. SAVE. GIVE. Wesley’s Simple Rules for Money “One year during the Super Bowl broadcast, a soft drink company aired a commercial pretending...
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The HeartBeat Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church High Point, North Carolina November 2015 Volume 23 No. 11 EARN. SAVE. GIVE. Wesley’s Simple Rules for Money “One year during the Super Bowl broadcast, a soft drink company aired a commercial pretending to show the origins of halftime. Two old-time football teams wearily lined up for the next play, wearing very little padding beyond their leather helmets, when a bevy of twenties-flappers drove up in a roadster. Holding up bottles of soft drink, the flappers asked the players to take a break. Soon everyone was guzzling a soft drink, snapping selfies with a box camera, and generally having a fine time. In the minds of many Christians, the offering is not worship; it’s a break in the action. Only when halftime is over does worship resume. And why shouldn’t they get that impression, when the offering consists of a perfunctory reading, a lifeless prayer, a tepid instrumental, and the singing of a well-worn stanza? But in the Hebrew Script
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