Money, buildings, and the 80-percent problem

A host wishes a megachurch pastor would come defend the model, then pivots to money: he will not claim charitable giving on his taxes ('they're the right hand and I'm the left hand'), and 501c3 structures muddy the waters (seg-00147 to seg-00155). The house church takes no money as an entity - most giving is non-deductible, direct, and receiptless - and a story is told of someone who redirected a gift because the church could not issue a tax receipt, letting the earthly driver alter where kingdom dollars go (seg-00156 to seg-00173). The hosts discuss how they would pray for big-church pastors and float a 50/50 rule: no more than half of any money in goes to internal support (salaries, building, heat), with pushback that it sounds like justifying a church that is bad at growth (seg-00174 to seg-00222).