"Stewardship" is not a synonym for "offerings."
1 Cor 16:2 was not about buying the Lutheran Synod a new building but rather a collection for the poor in Jerusalem.
Churches are in the real estate business, ever acquiring more land, more buildings, more goods, more vacation time...
A wise steward knows that this is a bad investment and doesn't give them a dime.
Anyone who lives off the backs of poor working people in order to prepare a weekly sermon (often about "the religious duty of giving") doesn't have a clue about the ministry as taught and patterned by Paul.
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