>>>Is the economy starting to impact churches? Tithing and church employees affected.

>>>Owen Bandy writes about the Bible’s take on loans and debt. He compares the enormous U.S. credit card debt to “a big government-approved corporate pyramid scheme in which more than 60 million American citizens are enslaved.” He writes: “The truth is, even though the politicians want us to go out and borrow more money to get the economy going again, the best thing for us to do is to avoid debt like a plague, because, like the Bible says, “the borrower is slave to the lender.” (Proverbs 22:7). I say we quit borrowing, get out of debt, and start using that $10 billion of interest each month for better things. That would be God’s economic recovery plan.”