I have attended many churches and one thing I found common in all of them is the issue of donations every Sunday. I mean, no Sunday passes without members being told to donate or make contributions as regards one project or the other.

The leaders in these churches always possess very wonderful skills in convincing the congregation why they should donate or make contributions every Sunday. It makes me wonder if there are special schools these people go to learn the act of convincing people manipulatively!

No one is interested whether the people who are always asked to donate have concrete or tangible jobs or business they do...but you just want them to donate 'handsomely' every Sunday; tithes and offerings are even excluded from this o! Don't they have personal or family issues to solve in their lives?

They tell you 'Give all what you have, even if you have N350,000 reserved for your children's fees and rent, give it out to the work of God'. In the end, they tell you one stale, overused and recycled story how they spent their last kobo on a project and were richly blessed!

These days, I feel very reluctant to attend church. They are all the same. Each time I step into a church, I feel less happy than before stepping in.

I don't know if there are other people who have knowledge of what I am pointing at.

It's because you've not found the right church yet! A living church will be more concerned about your spiritual growth rather than church donations.

Tosinex:
It's because you've not found the right church yet! A living church will be more concerned about your spiritual growth rather than church donations.

Even the ones that are seen as 'living churches' are not left out. I'd rather attend the dead churches if what these people do qualifies them to be called 'living churches'.

Tosinex:
It's because you've not found the right church yet! A living church will be more concerned about your spiritual growth rather than church donations.

Been m attending a particular church for 5 years now. only heard of donations less than 5 times and that was for new sets of chairs, sound system, and transport of converts to church. Even at that, is is totally voluntary and void any plenty talk.

It is called donation, nobody enforce it on u. Everybody is not the same in a church because God has blessed some people and they want to give. If u don't have, they don't force u to give.
Don't let it stop from going to church because ur blessings are still in church. Think more about the blessings u receive than donation.