Question of the Week – #8 - The Life of Lew Ayotte

Question of the Week – #8

October 1st, 2007 | Published in Spirit | 5 Comments

If Jesus told us to render to Caesar what is Caesar’s, why do we make our organizations non-profit and/or tax-free?

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Gary Harris says:

October 1st, 2007 at 12:03 PM (#)

Lew,

If a “tax-free” organization is legal, then it is “Caesar” that declared it so. In other words, Caesar has declared that these tax monies do not belong to Caesar.

Gary
bigdadgib says:

October 1st, 2007 at 02:45 PM (#)

“Caesar” made the church tax-free because he did not want to be seen as taking money from God.
Lew A says:

October 1st, 2007 at 03:48 PM (#)

I wonder if it would not be better to remain taxed… and thus not be in Caesar’s pocket.

Lew

By the way, I believe the ACLU is trying to force the church to be taxed.
bigdadgib says:

October 1st, 2007 at 06:57 PM (#)

Yep, the ACLU wants “Caesar” to run the church. Anything to do with God, the ACLU dislikes.

BTW, you have a great looking blog here.

BigDadGib
Lew A says:

October 2nd, 2007 at 12:21 AM (#)

BigDadGib,

Yeah, but I think I’m actually with the ACLU on this… in fact, I think it would be the perfect counter-strike. They want us to lose our non-profit status, let’s show them that our non-profit status has nothing to do with how well we can minister.

Thanks for visiting my blog and for complimenting it!

God’s Glory,
Lew