Is Your Church a Place of Business?

Is Your Church a Place of Business?

Is your church a place of business?
Is it incorporated in your state?
Is it liable to the government
Every time you pass the plate?

Are your business meetings cheerful?
No dissension, no one riled?
Left and right hands always knowing?
All contributions reconciled?

Does your church pay for lyrics
No prophet of God would pen?
Does it purchase lesson books
That teach the rules of men?

To those within His Father’s House;
Making it a robber’s den,
Jesus made a whip of cords
And drove out the businessmen.

There He let no one carry
Any form of merchandise.
“Take these things away from here!”
Prayer has no purchase price!

You who profit from the churches;
Who in them buy and sell,
Will Jesus make a whip for you
And drive you out towards hell?

What good will be your profits
Then as a seller or a buyer,
If the place that be your part
Be in the lake that burns with fire?

– Jerry Dan Deutschendorf