Bankers write sermon for pastors ‘ to calm Y2K fears’
By the Editors at ReligionToday.com, By the Editors at ReligionToday.com, August 19, 1999
Bankers have written a “sermon” they want pastors to deliver to calm Y2K fears. The American Bankers Association, a trade group, wrote what it calls a “generic sermon” for pastors, priests, and rabbis to persuade their congregants not to “bury their money in the back yard.”
“We want to go into the new millennium with hope, eagerness, and faith in this new century of promise. We don’t want to be crouched in our basements with candles, matches, and guns,” the document reads. The group urged depositors to keep their money in banks, “where it is protected and insured by the federal government.”
James Logan,
pastor of South Tryon Presbyterian ChurchJames Logan, pastor of South Tryon Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, N.C., doesn’t think much of the idea of a generic sermon, he told the Charlotte Observer. “I really believe in seeking what God would have me say to my congregation.”