May 14, 2018: Day 30 – Exodus 30

What do we today to provide the same kind of detail to our worship of God?  I would say nothing even comes close to what we read in Exodus.  We celebrate our Savior Jesus Christ, but the time and the effort that it took to make sure that the priests had what they needed to make appropriate offerings was way beyond what is prepared today.  We spend time preparing for Sunday, we pray over the Scripture and ask for guidance in the other elements of worship, but the details which are provided here are off the chain.  They are simply exaggerated, but it was what was required.  

Notice that there is a church tax.  Not so long ago in Germany there was a church tax for the German Unified Church which the state collected.  If you were on the rolls of the German Church then a tax was collected from you which went to the church.  That hasn’t been around for a few decades now, but it is recent history.  In Italy there is a certain amount of government money that goes to charitable organizations and when you vote you can designated to whom they will go, and the churches are included in those organizations.  The funds have to be used for social ministries, but I like that.  That seems to make more sense than the German model.