{"id":31269,"date":"2012-03-09T17:44:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T17:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/anyone_up_for_their_parish_doing_a_reverse_offering_this_sunday\/"},"modified":"2012-03-09T17:44:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T17:44:38","slug":"anyone_up_for_their_parish_doing_a_reverse_offering_this_sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31269","title":{"rendered":"Anyone up for their Parish Doing a Reverse Offering this Sunday?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A New Jersey church &#8211; already a bit different in that its three congregations gather weekly at two hotels and a middle school &#8211; put a new spin on the collection plate Sunday by having congregants take cash-filled envelopes from the plate in hopes that the money will be put to charitable use.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People are cynical about religion and expect to come to church and be shaken down, but really, it&#8217;s all God&#8217;s money,&#8221; Liquid Church pastor Tim Lucas said prior to Sunday services. &#8220;Every bill in the U.S. economy says &#8216;In God we trust,&#8217; and we&#8217;re going to put that to the test.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/09\/25\/nj-church-reverses-money-flow-collection-plate-holds-cash-for-congregants\">Read it all<\/a>. <i>Please note that I know churches here both in the Diocese and in the area who have done this; and they have been blessed&#8211;KSH<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Jersey church &#8211; already a bit different in that its three congregations gather weekly at two hotels and a middle school &#8211; put a new spin on the collection plate Sunday by having congregants take cash-filled envelopes from<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31269\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,582,149,168,184,177,593,108,441,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-personal-finance","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}