Um, the church isn't God. Handing out money to a pastor is not a guarantee it's being used properly. If my church shut down without a peep during the plandemic, and their priorities are building a new facility or sending money out of the country (as far as we can tell), when we've got members losing their homes because of medical bills or businesses closing, or vets who need help, recovering addicts, pregnant girls who need to get to a safe situation to raise their kids or put them up for adoption, etc, then I'm putting my money to stabilize our community first. If the church isn't listening then I have a hard time believing it's doing God's work.

Handing over money blindly doesn't absolve any of us of our responsibility of stewardship. Just like handing it over to the government, who replaced charitable works of churches, absolves is of anything.