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# Embezzlement: The Corporate Sin of Contemporary Christianity?
- URL: https://www.dashhouse.com/200567embezzlement-the-corporate-sin-of-contemporary-christianity-html/
- Published: 2005-06-07T03:43:25.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-16T12:31:24.000Z
- Author: Darryl Dash
- Tags: Blog, Church, #DashHouseCom, #wp

[A stimulating paper (PDF)](https://www.dashhouse.com/content/files/2022/08/EmbezzlementPaper--1-.pdf) examining how local congregations in the early church spent their money, and the implications for today:

> While reading some patristic documents recently I was startled to discover that the Church Fathers are univocal in their insistence that the bulk of the revenue collected by a local church belonged by right to the poor. There was no exception among them that a large percentage of what was collected by a local congregation would be used for its own maintenance and ministry. In fact, to do so would have been viewed by them as a misappropriation of funds.

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