My wife and I kid  each other about the “sin zone” for the lottery. If the lottery starts to rise toward that 200 million mark it is a real temptation to purchase a ticket.  Now before you jump all over this from both sides. You know who you are, 1. The Lottery is sinful group and 2. The there’s nothing sinful about the lottery crowd. I’m really not here for a discussion on the appropriateness of the lotttery.

The Bible has little to say about the lottery/gambling. The lottery is sinful crowd has to stretch a long way to find scripture that speaks against the lottery/gambling. On the other hand the Pro Lottery/Gambling crowd tends to hide their faces and their hearts when it comes to the destructiveness of gambling to families with addictions. Harvard, hardly a bastion of conservative Christian thinking did a longitudinal study of lottery winners and according to Harvard almost 85% of families are destroyed after winning the lottery. Not very good odds huh? Anybody want to make that bet. Sure a lot of you do. Me only when the numbers enter the “sin zone.” Just kidding.

It was not my intent to go there…but what I was wondering. We have so many needs I was kind of hoping that someone with a heart for church planting might win the lottery and give a bunch to WRC and the church planting efforts. You know like Janis Joplin sang, “Oh Lord won’t you buy me a color tv…only “Oh Lord let a tither win the lottery… ) Now I’m not promoting the lottery (this week up to 54 million ). But if you happen to win it and want to tithe. I assure you I’ll put that money to work in the Kingdom, not in the world. God could do mighty things with 5.4 million dollars directed toward church planting. I know I’m gonna get whacked for this post. But I’m a big boy I can take it and the 5.4 mill if someone wins.

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