There is a financial side to the activities of ANY church. The motives for scriptural giving should always be pure, and out of a heart of love moved by a desire to humbly serve God in a church capacity. Primitive Baptists have always rightly believed that such matters imposed on the conference or preaching hour detracts somewhat from the dignity and solemnity of the joyous reception of the gospel. Giving should be done as a matter of Christian duty. Any accumulated funds may well be placed in the hands of an appointed treasurer as a matter of good business procedure who may endorse checks, make deposits, and sign payouts on the advice of the deacon or the order of the church.
Inspiration records the early church s system of finance.
It is good for instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished, unto every good work. The exact manner in which members give their offerings to the church is a private matter that we might well leave to the discretion of that individual church. Let us always remember that circumstances alter cases. In the early history of Texas, there were times when almost no legal money existed, and churches gave beef, potatoes, syrup, hogs, corn and fruit. Today a small church of twenty members can easily hand their money to their deacon at an opportune time at their meetings.