$1B Churches: No Transparency, No Accountability. Just Like PAPee!

[makapaaa]

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR>Mega churches: 'The issue isn't about relocation or expansion. It is about transparency and accountability.'
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I READ with interest last Friday's article, 'Church member responds: 'We are different in our management of funds from most other faiths''.
I am of the opinion that the issue here is not about relocation of church congregations into newer and bigger premises, or expansion of church congregation sizes, as the article suggested. It is about notions of transparency and accountability that are required of churches - or, in this case, mega-churches.
Transparency in the way funds are handled, and for what purposes they are used, is necessary as this enables greater openness of the church leadership to its members. There needs to be a certain degree of public accountability, especially if it concerns finances, as this gives due respect to members' act of investing in the church. Even though it may put the church leadership under the spotlight, I am sure being honest and forthright about handling church finances will lay better foundations of communication and interaction between leadership and congregation. Daryl Chan

 

[newyorker88]

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR>Mega churches: 'The issue isn't about relocation or expansion. It is about transparency and accountability.'
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I READ with interest last Friday's article, 'Church member responds: 'We are different in our management of funds from most other faiths''.
I am of the opinion that the issue here is not about relocation of church congregations into newer and bigger premises, or expansion of church congregation sizes, as the article suggested. It is about notions of transparency and accountability that are required of churches - or, in this case, mega-churches.
Transparency in the way funds are handled, and for what purposes they are used, is necessary as this enables greater openness of the church leadership to its members. There needs to be a certain degree of public accountability, especially if it concerns finances, as this gives due respect to members' act of investing in the church. Even though it may put the church leadership under the spotlight, I am sure being honest and forthright about handling church finances will lay better foundations of communication and interaction between leadership and congregation. Daryl Chan

So simple, dont go to such churches loh!

 

[Manchu]

So simple, dont go to such churches loh!

As always, it is only the simple-minded followers whom false prophets easily con in God's name.

We've seen this happen all around the world.

 

[mscitw]

thats what NKF claimed to be before the Great Expose!

Regardless of religions, human greed for $$$$ persists.

 

[drifter]

So simple, dont go to such churches loh!

should be ..dont go to churches

 

[drifter]

teekee where are you ..hahaha

 

[TeeKee]

Mega churches: 'The issue isn't about relocation or expansion. It is about transparency and accountability.'

actually a peek into LEE DYNASTY net worth would be much much much much more interesting than some small church financial statements...

 

[TeeKee]

teekee where are you ..hahaha

you think by going or not going to church it benefits me meh? lol..

 

[drifter]

you think by going or not going to church it benefits me meh? lol..

then why are you preaching here ? .

 

[miosux]

actually a peek into LEE DYNASTY net worth would be much much much much more interesting than some small church financial statements...

no chance for that since the gov abolishing estate duty so no need to reveal lky's wife's accounts to the tax man upon her passing.