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The four terms you mention--vow, oath, swear, and pledge--are referring to three very different situations. Only three, because swear and oath go together. In the Bible, to swear is to make an oath and an oath is what someone swears.
Consider these meanings:. Your question specifically refers to the taking of pledges for a building fund. As you can see, the biblical use of the word does not perfectly match with the modern usage where it means a promise.
It is not a vow because a vow is a promise made to God--a modern financial pledge is not made to God. Neither is it specifically an oath. No one swears on their Bible that they will give this money. In truth, a pledge as used today to raise money for buildings is a promise.
Making a pledge as used today is not the same thing as making an oath. Therefore, the warning of Matthew [33] Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths: [34] But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: [35] Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.
However, this is not to say that God is well-pleased with the way churches raise money today. In 2 Corinthians , Paul put the pressure on the Corinthians when raising money for the saints in Judea.
Today, we put even more pressure on for the building of ever larger and grander buildings. And our methods? They are not the methods of the New Testament. We have taken our money-raising methods from the world. I have seen seminars advertised that had sessions on how to get more money from people, how to get larger pledges, even how to influence the elderly to put the church in their will. Instead of simply praying for God to touch hearts and preaching the need, churches have been so influenced by the world that the two cannot even be distinguished.
The high pressure sells techniques are carefully planned and orchestrated. Special fund-raisers with amazingly high fees are brought in to squeeze more money out of the people. All for bigger buildings.
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