How do I know if my Church is a 501c3?


Published on Aug 30, 2014

How do I know if my Church is a 501c3? Answer: If your Church has a bank account, then it is 100% underneath the law and jurisdiction of 501c3. Carefully listen to this video as we clarify one of the biggest misconceptions that pastors have when they think their Churches are not a 501c3 or underneath it’s jurisdiction.

6 thoughts on “How do I know if my Church is a 501c3?

  1. At the last church I attended in CA (Calvary Chapel South Bay), I simply walked into the front office and asked “Are you a 501(c)(3) church?”

    The woman I asked didn’t have a clue what I was talking about, but a receptionist at a typewriter behind her said resoundingly “NO!”

    She knew what I was asking, and the reason for asking.

  2. 1. They have a Board of Directors
    2. Employees are given w-4’s and the rest to fill out, and you know the rest.
    3. Preachers can’t get political (except of course to back whatever Israel does)
    4. Preachers can’t defend the Bill of Rights
    5. They meet in churches, not homes or public places like the churches of Paul’s day did.

    Since I’ve never been on a Board and will not be with a 501-c3 church I have no idea what system they use to report tithes to the govt….

    Most large churches are 501-c3. Most small ones are not, but a few around here are.

  3. THE PREACHER THAT CONVERTED ME ROUTINELY PREACHED AGAINST THE MASONIC LODGES, AND THEIR BABYLONIAN ORIGINS,CITING THE F A C T THAT YOU CANNOT BE A FREEMASON AND A CHRISTIAN.

  4. You talk about churches needing to be set “free”. What are you talking about? The understanding is for most churches if their parishioners want to claim contributions to the church as tax deductible, then the church has to have signed up to be a 501-c-3. But if a church has done that, then the pastor says they cannot preach or teach anything political. Where is the error? If by opening a bank account they become a 501c3 automatically, what is the work around to be able to preach political messages? Not be incorporated? Not call themselves a church? I’m thinking there are probably many ramifications as far as city building and zoning permits and ordinances that affect them even having a “church”? Your book sounds informative but how do I, as a lay person, convince my church that what you write is legally sound?

    1. If the good Christians attending these churches want a write-off on the mammon they give to God, I guess I have to wonder what they are doing there.
      And to the churches that accept the 501(c)3 so they can garner larger donations and operate as a business in the service of mammon, again I have to ask, what the f-k are they doing there.
      Just a thought.

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