Parakaleo
Puritan Board Sophomore
A church paying people to work on the Lord's day is evil.
If you work to do something that is needful for yourself, that's necessity. No one pays themselves to see to their own needs.
If you work to do something that is needful for others, that's mercy. Expectation of payment for a work of mercy voids it as a work of mercy. Acceptation of payment for a work of mercy voids it as a work of mercy.
Meeting other people's needs on the Lord's day is excellent. However, meeting their needs by hiring workers to do it on the Lord's day causes people to sin.
If you work to do something that is needful for yourself, that's necessity. No one pays themselves to see to their own needs.
If you work to do something that is needful for others, that's mercy. Expectation of payment for a work of mercy voids it as a work of mercy. Acceptation of payment for a work of mercy voids it as a work of mercy.
Meeting other people's needs on the Lord's day is excellent. However, meeting their needs by hiring workers to do it on the Lord's day causes people to sin.