By: Nick Smith
The scenario’s given in the original article are pretty interesting. It seems like there is a choice to either do whatever you would like to do because you have some sort of right as a pastor to or to go ahead and go the hard route, wait it out and see what the board or treasurer has to say about it. As far as ethical issues go for me, it seems like if the situation is going to benefit you even a little bit, then its probably wrong. If some guy wants to give the church a house to sell it back to his daughter then it gets a bit harder for me. The church needs the money, but that deal seems a bit shady. If anyone outside of the church ever got a hold of that one they would destroy you in the papers. The church probably doesn’t need the money that badly. If it got itself into a poor financial situation well then maybe it doesn’t deserve to grow… If a question of ethics pops into your head then it is probably a good bet that whatever seems the easiest is not the best situation. If you use the church credit card for something of your own, then make sure it gets paid back. If you are not an honest enough of a person to pay it back then you probably don’t deserve the credit card or deserve to be a pastor.
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a simple answer is "ask." rzther than doing something, ask first what the policy is.
ReplyDeleteBTW I just read through all your group's work below... you guys are on track pretty good--keep on keeping on!