Questions: 1) At what point in a relationship is it okay to co-mingle money? The average respondent indicated no sooner than marriage. Some may opt never to co-mingle money and others indicated that co-mingling money did not exclude an additional separate account. 2) If a couple were to divorce due in part to the infidelity of one partner, should the faithful partner receive a share greater than 50% of the assets? We found it hard to find a legal, logical reason to grant more to the faithful partner, but it sounded like some of us kind of wanted to find one.
Read: Titus Chapter 1
We talked for a bit about what to read and opted to check out one of the Pastoral Letters. Paul put Titus in a position of authority and this was a letter about the care of the church. The requirements for an elder were stated: be able to be looked up to, committed to his family, self-controlled (not-pushy, short-tempered, a drunk, a bully, greedy), be hospitable, holy, disciplined, and "have a good grip on the Message." (Titus 1:9 The Message.) We noticed that Paul didn't write, "A thorough knowledge of the Jewish law." We discussed the reality that we ask pastors to be executives and theologians and is that what Paul would have looked for.
"To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted. 16They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good." These verses also caught our eyes and ears. Especially 16, they claim to know God, but fail to show it. Not only do they not show knowledge, they go so far as to deny him by their actions.
Topic-hopping after our energized side discussion: we will be inviting members of the LGB to come visit us. They indicated at the Voter's Meeting that they wanted to know more from our age group so we will be following up on that in mid-July.
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