{"id":14053,"date":"2011-09-01T16:16:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T20:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=14053"},"modified":"2011-09-01T16:16:40","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T20:16:40","slug":"eight-stewardship-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/eight-stewardship-myths\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight stewardship myths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can read about the other seven, predictably prosaic, myths in an article by the Diocese of Toronto\u2019s Director of Stewardship <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.anglican.ca\/uploads.php?id=4e5bd91ca1b3d\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (page 4).<\/p>\n<p>The eighth myth is much more interesting:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Myth<\/strong>: You can expect parishioners to pay for and maintain the buildings they worship in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Truth<\/strong>: In every case where congregations have had sufficiently strong theological differences with their dioceses that they realigned with another Anglican province while still hoping to use their buildings, the dioceses have gone to court to establish that they, the dioceses are the legal owners. So far the dioceses have been largely successful.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, even though they claim to own the buildings, Anglican dioceses contribute nothing to their maintenance or the initial cost of building them. You can only con people for so long: no amount of weeping and wailing by stewardship directors is going to squeeze more cash out of people who have already forked out millions of dollars to pay for something they thought was theirs but, according to a spiteful, hypocritical, grasping national church can be taken from them at any time.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the Anglican Church of Canada, the Ponzi religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can read about the other seven, predictably prosaic, myths in an article by the Diocese of Toronto\u2019s Director of Stewardship here (page 4). The eighth myth is much more interesting: Myth: You can expect parishioners to pay for and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/eight-stewardship-myths\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[2032],"class_list":["post-14053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-toronto","tag-anglican-church-of-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}