if Jesus had $100,000,000 to build a church, what would it look like?

Didn't he always say that his church was a church of men, not of buildings? Or something like that?

good.

The money left over would go to feed and clothe the poor and the sick.

That would be a really odd way to help the sick, the poor and the oppressed.

... it would give grandmothers something to do besides trolling for ass.

with my wife and told her if I was going to be a villian, he's the villain I would be.

& I see no hypocrites there.


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Great Minds think alike. I think whether Jesus was given a dime or a trillion dollars, none of that money would go into building a church but instead helping those who need help. Anyhow a church isn't a building but a gathering of people in God's name

God has already built the cathedral. Man is continually destroying it.
Jesus would insist on caring for the hungry and sick.

Jesus was a Commie?

Jesus!

I mean...Gosh!

Gosh was a Fascist! Try "Golly", he was totally non-political.

this photo says it better than my words would have. thank you.

and exactly right :)

spirit is all around us, and throughout all creation, and that no building or structure is truly needed to worship. Then he'd give the money to the poor.



...but he was Jewish, so he might set aside $10 million for investments. (that was a joke, all ye of brittle egos)

as for the food and clothes, "he could get it for them wholesale" (little New York Jewish humor to boot).

His real followers would be out feeding the hungry, clothing the naked and healing the sick. The real church would be among the homeless.

but not a real green dress, that's cruel

I picasso or a garfunkle?

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/addressimage.aspx?T=4&S=11&Alon=-85.671268&Alat=38.292820&W=1&opt=0&qs=920+Blankenbaker+Ln%7cLouisville%7cky%7c&addr=920+Blankenbaker+Ln%2c+Louisville%2c+KY+40207&Lon=-85.54569483333333&Lat=38.227822464999996

(notice the distance scale in the bottom right)

Although I am willing to admit it might also look like a St. Vincent DePaul's thrift store sans the cash registers.

...As for Jesus, it would be a Mount (mountain) where multitudes could come and sit and hear his sermons as well as share their baskets of bread and fishes and wine or juice.

Plus, they're STILL expanding:
http://www.southeastchristian.org/com_mrfm.cfm



Ah...found this:

http://www.mgawest.com/Portfolio/southeast.htm

when people are going hungry, homeless, without medical care, without jobs...

73 million dollars---that should be taxed to hell and back.

it can be seen for miles away. Some even refer to it as The Baptidome. Check out the virtual tour especially the cafe.
http://www.prestonwood.org/sites/document.asp?did=4468

is the megachurchmen's answer to this dilemma.

For ye have the poor with you always ... but me ye have not always.

It is also vitally important to leave out that part covered by the ellipsis "and whensoever ye will ye may do them good" so as to emphasize that the focus should be on building "monuments to Jesus" rather than on the poor.

They can also cite Judas who also advocated selling the woman's alabaster box from which she anointed Jesus with spikenard and giving the proceeds to the poor. Who wants to be like Judas?

There are loopholes for every situation. As Bill Maher said of the studies showing the "abstinent" Christian youth are retaining their "virginity" by having oral and anal sex, "We have found at least two."

And a small one at that. From that tent he would distrbute $99,999,850 worth of aid to the poor and hungry.

hungry.

With a medical area to provide treatment for the poor and suffering.

thousands of people being clothed and fed, getting medical attention. There would be no structure because God isn't contained in 4 walls and a ceiling.

Shows what a great compassionate caring people frequent the DU!

All of :yourock:

McChurhes, everywhere, huge, towering manifestos to man, not God. I was recently at my nieces wedding and all the gold in the catholic church made me sick. The nerve of these men preaching for money while standing in front of you in gilded clothing and in a church that is all but sacrilegious in it's adornment.

Most of today's churches have audio/visual depts. that rival most television stations i.e. recording studios, video production etc. Millions of wasted dollars.....I spend my tithe elsewhere.

Definitely NOT Catholic.

They're quite expensive, with classrooms & recreation facilities along with the sanctuaries. And they generally have all the architectural distinction of a regional headquarters of a moderately-sized insurance company.

It is called THE CHURCH IN THE NOW!

Jeez. This thing is so nasty. It has a big flashing billboard with neon lights. The massive sanctuary is ugly as hell, and it is clearly developed to give the facade of wealth and importance. I can only imagine the drivel that is "preached" there every week.

God I hate mega churches. They are an abomination and antithetical to all of the teachings of Jesus.

i don't ever remember reading one of Christ's sermons in which he finished up by passing the plate for donations, but i could be wrong.

But it was full of bread and fish and he was giving, not receiving!

amen

For ever and ever.

Ommmmmmmm.

departments, they own their own TV station, two radio stations, and their own K-12 "Christian" school -- and they can't keep their fingers out of the political pie at all. The pastor is good buds with Jerry Falwell. Gack!

delicious food, refreshing drink, (herbal refreshment!!!), good vibes flowing everywhere on earth, not just in some building. The money he would use for toilet paper if what you hear about Jesus is true.

Back from lala land, if I were Jesus I would use the money for building materials and call upon the faithful to build the church and grow the food to feed those who couldn't feed themselves. But that's just me! :)

bitch "pinko commie socialist" kitty

They all exist in the hearts of the people that work feeding the hungry, taking care of the sick, pray for peace, and extoll the virtues that he lived.
A building is not a church--the true church is the people that worship.

the Crystal Cathedral

Or this....



Jerry Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church

New Revelation.

As I grok, anyways...

anyone had ever seen.

And there would be one everywhere one was needed.

This I do believe.

Redstone

they met regularly to worship and to be edified. Jesus never said not to assemble; he apparently bothered to be present, as far as we know, the three times a year he was required to be in Jerusalem, and attended synagogue. He never said his followers should avoid contact with each other.

I'd hate to try to sit through a sermon, even by Christ, in Rochester, NY, in January, or Tucson in August.

He'd find a place for his people to assemble. He may rent a room, as he did for the Passover, unless people think he horribly sinned by so doing ... in which case he didn't bother to actually keep the Law, and sinned in yet another way; he might have his followers assemble in houses, if they weren't numerous. If they were numerous, he'd use the money for a building. It would be simple. It would serve the purpose of preaching, and whatever other aspects of worship were appropriate.