One should be able to leverage some amount of value of those assets for loans. When you have assets you have options. And I'm sure they have lots of followers

One should be able to leverage some amount of value of those assets for loans. When you have assets you have options. And I'm sure they have lots of followers that will give money until it hurts to keep their Church from failing - a business can't ask its employees to fund things for a while in the same way a church can ask its followers. The church has options that others do not have and lobbying should not come first.