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It is not easy to be a church outside of the ordinary. Whenever churches try to do something different seems like everyone has something to say about it. We humans by nature oppose to change, to new things but it seems like that feeling it's even stronger when it comes to churches. It has always been that way and I guess it will always be that way. Sometimes I even need to remind myself to be open minded and filter it through the bible whatever differences I don't agree with.

The newest paradigm we are facing touches on a very sensitive subject: Money. We all get uncomfortable when the M word is mentioned at church, I still don't know why. These days it is very unusual to carry cash or do any cash transaction. I would say 90% of our monetary transactions are done in some kind of digital/electronic form. This is where the subject of this post comes in, I heard before about churches with ATMs or Credit Card Readers machines where you are able to tithe with your plastic but it wasn't until now that I was able to confirm it.

The Pastor at Stevens Creek Church decided to go for it and founded a...how do you call it? Church ATM Service Company? Basically his company provides ATM machines for churches where you can give your tithes or else and of course he provides this service to the same church where he pastors. That move awarded him an interview with CNN and I agree, it doesn't look good that the pastor of the church also owns the ATM services for his and other churches, but that's not the point, the point is that it is something new and different and seems like some people are having a hard time adjusting. I think CNN wasn't very bias as I thought they would be, however they did a lousy job quoting scripture, that verse in Matthew they quoted was so out of context. Anyways, I still don't get used to the idea of walking into a church and seeing an ATM machine in the lobby, I definitely like how our church does it. I don't know, what do you think? is it tacky? or cool?. I'm still divided about it. I don't think it's a matter of right or wrong, I just think it looks kind of tacky...I don't know...maybe we should have the ones where you pay with your fingerprints :-)

To watch the interview you can click Here