Next week is Consecration Sunday as you know. For several weeks you have been getting mail from First Presbyterian reminding you of the event. We have a special guest speaker coming - David Oyler, the Stated Clerk of our Lake Erie Presbytery - a celebration banquet following worship, all in all, a very exciting day. Our leaders are providing you the opportunity to estimate your giving for the coming year so they might wisely plan the mission and ministry of this growing church.

Well, I am about to commit the ultimate heresy. I am going to tell you: don’t do it! Do not give to support the program of this church. Do not give because you hear of the urgent need of particular missions. Do not give to alleviate hunger, disease or poverty. All of that comes under the category of what I call giv…