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Welcome to Love Offering; Nothing for Something. My name is Josh Lemasters. I’m a writer, musician, artist, wannabe philosopher, full time furniture maker, and recovering addict. The term love offering was (and maybe still is?) a term used quite a bit in the evangelical church when I was a kid. I was especially familiar with it because I grew up in a traveling family “band” that went from church to church, weekend after weekend, and quite often the means of payment from the church was called a love offering. Simply put, after our performance, they would pass a collection plate around the congregation and people could put as much money in the plate as they were able, or saw our performance worthy off. I would be standing up front in my little boy polo shirt, looking at the audience, often singing with my sisters and parents while they passed the plate around. “Did you love it, or only sort of like it?” Then, naturally on our way home, my sisters (who were older) would count the love offering. “I guess they thought it was ok/not ok.” Oh, to be a 90s kid in the evangelical church again.

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