QUESTION: There is in Nashville an African Christian Schools Foundation and in Searcy, Arkansas, an African Christian Hospital. These two groups regulate the money sent by American brethren to support people in Africa. Is it right to support these organizations?
ANSWER: If the work being done by these two groups is secular, i.e., it is not work for which the church is scripturally responsible, then support would be a matter of option and would not be improper.
However, if these two organizations were engaged in doing work for which the church is responsible, then support of their work would be sinful. In fact, such organizations would be sinful. No organization can assume the work of the church, in place of the church, without sinning! Any organization, other than the Lord’s church, that presumes to assume the responsibilities of the church, as given to it by God, sins and scripturally forfeits it’s right to exist!