Topic: Offerings and money

Question

How shall the church act towards calls for financial help of…for food and clothing? What—what act, what—what should the church do?

Answer

Now we realize that the church is responsible for its own, for our members here of the church, we are totally responsible as far as we have needs to supply them with. We are responsible for our own, that’s, steady, constant members of the tabernacle that come here and worship with us. We are duty bo...

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Brother Branham… There’s three, two questions on this card here. Brother Branham, what should be the policy of taking up offerings in the church for people? How should this be done?

Answer

I think taking up offerings in the church for people should not be done unless it’s for your pastor. And I think if someone comes in for charity, or something like that, that…Or someone in—in bad need, like one of our members here, our congregation, say if one of our brothers, and they have some tro...

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Should or should not a local church take care of her own, of her—her local (own) responsibilites before taking care of foreign needs in other lands? However, after she…her…After she meets her needs, it is Scriptural for a local church to help in missionary work as she is able?

Answer

Yeah. Right. Charity begins at home, you see. We—we—we take care of our own needs here, ’cause we’d have…this is the church of God, or ever, your little church, the church of God. Now, if you can’t even pay your pastor, you can’t even get song books and things, you shouldn’t be sending it somewhere...

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Brother Branham, is it right for ministers to make long pulls for money in their services, telling that God has told them that so many in the audience are supposed to give so much? If this is right, I want to know. Or if it is wrong, I want to know. This has disturbed me terribly.

Answer

Now, you see, friend, I’m going to tell you, I’m going to tell you what I think. See? Now, that don’t mean it right. I think it’s terrible. Now, I think this. God sent me on the field. I’ve seen the time where I looked like I would be at least…And I—I didn’t have no money at all. And I’d say, “Just...

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What does Brother Branham do with the love offerings given to him?

Answer

And now—and last night, or yesterday afternoon, rather, or it’s last night it was, they taken in the meeting here, a love offering for me. I want to thank you. I’m not worthy that you should give it to me. I didn’t think about it until last night when they brought the—to me and said, “Here’s the lov...

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Is raising church money through suppers and dinners God's way?

Answer

Standing in a conference or gathering of ministers of my own church, after coming back, some of the Doctors of Divinity said, “Brother Branham, we’d like for you to speak tonight.” Oh, how it made me feel to get to stand and say, “Brethren,” (The minister that ordained me was present.) I said, “What...

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What did Brother Branham do with money beyond what he needed to live on?

Answer

What I do with money, the reason that I don’t own a big tent, or have places like that: I spend every penny of money, God Who is my solemn Judge knows that everything that I don’t have to have to live on, I put it in foreign missions, and go over to the heathen lands to preach the Gospel to the heat...

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Why did Brother Branham refuse to touch the bank draft for a million and a half dollars sent to him?

Answer

And every penny that’s left from our meetings (Brother Lindsay and them knows just what we eat, and so forth) we turn right straight back into the Gospel work, back, and try to live just as cheap as I can. When I go to the cities, I don’t look for big hotels. The cheapest one I can find, that’s what...

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Did Brother Branham take money for his ministry?

Answer

When I was a minister, a Baptist preacher in my church for twelve years, I never even received one red penny of salary. I never tried to take but one offering in my entire life. And that was when I got up against it once and was going…I had…I just couldn’t make ends meet. And I told the wife I was g...