As the pastor in several churches in my career, and a pastor's son in many others, I have spent a lifetime learning the culture of church. My conclusion is that you can have a variety of denominations, but in most cases human nature is human nature. We may believe differently, but in many ways we act the same regardless of what church we worship in. An example is in our giving. What my experience has been is that we often neglect the simple truths of giving, out and out reject them, or we complicate them with rules and extra Biblical thinking. We neglect to remember that we are stewards of His greater resources. We are managers of His money, His time and His giftedness within us. He asks so little of His own resources, yet we rationalize from a mixed bag of priorities what we think we need to do, spend money on and invest in. Make no mistake, God will judge us on this. It's that big of a deal. My quest lately has been to read the gosp...