Steeples, Good Bad, indifferen?
Are they a wast of money?
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Discussion in 'General Baptist Discussions' started by Salty, Dec 19, 2012.
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Waste of money, IMHO. Kind of like choir robes.
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We have had visitors to our church because they saw the steeple from the interstate. So, no. Not a waste of money.
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Revmitchell Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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preachinjesus Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Keep me simple, keep a cross on top, and make sure they are lit in the evening. That's about it for what we do with ours.
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Earth Wind and Fire Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
My friend & pastor has a building & maintenance budget of about $10,000 a year..... maybe that even includes all operating costs. He runs the heating & AC each year as well as flushes the toilets & puts on the lights. Thats all.
The people do the rest. No organs, lovely A Capella singing & true spiritual prayer. You get baptized in da local river (with a current)! -
Waste of money. I would not go out of my way to tear one down, but I would not build one either.
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Bro. Curtis <img src =/curtis.gif>Site Supporter
Give me a non-descript store-front church pushing fifty members. All you need is some chairs, hymnals, a King James Bible, and a coffee maker.
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oh....and while I would be content with hymnals I would enjoy a mix of contemporary songs added in.
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According to this article, steeples on churches are of pagan origin, representing fertility gods and rituals. Interesting reading.
http://www.ehow.com/about_5052101_origin-church-steeples.html -
IMHO, steeples, like the building itself, is just another money-pit tradition that does nothing to fulfill the purposes for assembling. Their just another reason for focusing on & calling a man-made building the "church" instead of the people as the regenerate Church of God.
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