"My Grannie told me be careful what you sign, you could be signing your life away"

My grandmother told me when I was about 16-19 years of age, read what you are signing, don’t just sign stuff, you could be signing your life away. She sure wasn’t talking about God because she was not saved and rejected all that was of God. I understand she was talking about physical possessions or other things. But I have never forgotten those words, but they seem to come so strongly now in my mid-age.

Some few years back before I came into the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ I was in the Americorp program. And I was good at signing things and not fully understanding what was written or reading it thoroughly. I was just happy to get whatever was coming.

But know with all this information in today’s society and understanding that in living our lives unto the Lord, we should be careful what we are participating in or signing.

Here is a prime example of signing not only your life away, but signing your very rights away as a Christian/believer in all that stands for God and his word, all in exchange for a few dollars or temporal success.

As an AmeriCorps member, you may not:

_ engage in any effort to influence legislation, including state or local ballot
Initiatives or lobbying for your AmeriCorps program; for example,
you may not organize a letter-writing campaign to Congress;
_ engage in partisan political activities or other activities designed to
influence the outcome of an election to any public office;
_ organize or take part in political demonstrations or rallies;
_ organize or participate in protests, petitions, boycotts, or strikes;
_ assist, promote, or deter union organizing;
_ impair existing contracts for services or collective bargaining agreements;
_ participate in, or endorse, events or activities that are likely to include
advocacy for or against political parties, political platforms, political candidates,
proposed legislation, or elected officials; for example, you may
not print politically charged articles in a Corporation-funded newsletter;
_ perform clerical work, research, or fundraising, except if incidental to
your direct service activities;

_ engage in religious instruction; conduct worship services; provide
instruction as part of a program that includes mandatory religious
instruction or worship; construct or operate facilities devoted to religious
instruction or worship; maintain facilities primarily or inherently
devoted to religious instruction or worship; or engage in any
form of religious proselytization; or
_ provide a direct benefit to a for-profit entity, a labor union, a partisan
political organization, or, in general, an organization engaged in the
religious activities described in the preceding bullet.

If you would like to read this from there site just (Google Americorp contract.)


It is our duties as Christians if someone was to ask us a question about the Lord or our faith to share it.

Under this contract you are prohibited to worship God or to share him in the possibility of a soul being saved. You are not even supposed to support anyone or help benefit those that do conduct worship services or engage in teaching or conversion through the gospel.

Of course they write this to include any religion, but what they are really saying is that while you are an Americorp member, you can’t worship or praise or convert through the sharing of the gospel. Neither can you provide a direct benefit to those that do.

Although many people sign these contracts they continue on as usual, but would God really want us to indebt ourselves in the manner. NOT

And we have to remember what we sign, we agree with to that employer, so not only have we disobeyed God to sign such an agreement, we further disobey him, because now the very contract we have signed, we are expected to obey, because it is also written obey your masters (employers) in the flesh, so if people sign this contract knowingly and then say, but they can’t stop me from talking about God. You have sinned double.

Why do so-called ministries and churches partner with organizations like this, who demand that our Christian rights be taken away while we receive their so-called help. Can these churches and ministries not see that the very Christian members (employers through these programs) who come to help and yet make some extra income through these programs are signing away the very rights that God gave them as Christians?

They are supposed to be able to share in with the ministry or church that calls itself (Christian) they are working.

I am not talking about getting paid to work at your local church. We all need to help with or without pay when it comes to the gospel sake.

But I am talking about local programs and churches that supply an open work-related employer income. They have the title ministry, but work full-time while earning income, yet providing services to the community while using the title Jesus Christ.

I can understand such a thing from pagan employers, but not from those who call themselves Christian employers or ministries, while we all suppose to be working in the name of the Lord.

But we can’t praise or conduct worship service or share our faith in the help of conversion by the testimony of the Gospel or provide a direct benefit to those who do. What a pity that pastors, elders, bishops and Christian leaders in the community have to turn to the world for help at the expense of signing some people’s God given rights away.

But every man is responsible for his own soul.

Christians when we see things like this, we have a choice to make. Am I going to sign my beliefs and things I know to be true about God away and compromise just to get some money for school or rent or whatever.

Or am I going to stand with the help of God and the Truth of his word knowing that as he provide for the sparrows, He will provide for me. My life on this earth may be temporarily inconvienced and I may be without much, but if I love God with my whole heart and obey his commandments, my eternal reward will not fail.

Be Blessed