For the love or the money

Recently, after talking in real life about how my attempt to troll the PC Powerplay forums failed, mainly due to me posting in the serious discussion thread in all caps. Which I only posted in the "Questions about Chrisitanity" thread, mainly due to me getting angry and wanting to post things that would get my normal account banned, which I didn't want. And I posted, on my original account, how Christians witnessing and attemping to convert others is out of love, not money or selfish reason. There was the usual arrogant atheist response (involving an explanation of SCIENCE and LOGIC to me). Eh, I got over it.

Back to the talking in RL again, my friend who is also on the forums saw this post, and then after saying the forums don't need a troll (which they really do, because right now they're downright boring 90% of the time), he mentioned my post, which everyone got in uproar over and started saying "No they don't, they just want the church to make money" and all this other stuff I forgot. The one quoted is the one that stuck.

I mean seriously, lets get this first point out of the way. I gain absolutely nothing if my church makes more money. Seriously, I don't, and people don't just give straight away when they join a church, do they? I mean, the church isn't there just to make money. What do churches do with money, tell me? Yup, not much, mainly just staff and building costs. No, we're not building some superweapon or something crazy, and we're not a company like the Catholic church is built up to be.

The church is there to be a hospital for the sinners, not a refuge for the saints (I think that's how the quote goes). We are out there telling people about Jesus because of the love we have for you that we don't want to see you spending eternity in the wrong place. That's how I see it.