Your opinion on financial giving?

[Guest LadyC]

i'm not sure how it applies to what i said... can you clarify for me?

[Guest HIS girl]

Out of my 10% giving of my finances- I give to the Church as well as anyone/thing that I feel led by the Holy Spirit to give.

It could include buying something for someone - shouting them lunch - giving them money, whatever the case maybe. I give according to how I am led by the Holy Spirit - out of the 10%. If I get any extra money on top - I always give. I am not at all surprised that God covers me financially when I am in need.

[yesult]

My opinion, is that tithing is as relevent as do not murder. It's there to help us - churchs need a steady income to be able to pay everyones salries and survive. That being said, I also don't believe it's always cut and dried. I always tithed without even thinking about it because I was brought up that way - but last year I felt God tell me to stop tithing, so I did. I also haven't been attending a church regularly since then. Church. But not a specific church. Just floating at the moment and enjoying it. (And no that's not a sin.) Every time the bag comes round I usually pray and see what God says. Sometimes it's a small amount, sometimes larger, but he usually says something.

I think that 10% is a good base, plus offerings on top of that for different causes or visiting speakers and just being generous anywhere else it comes up. But as long as God has the final say, as you're led by the spirit.

[EricH]

Someone pointed out an interesting thought . . . and I'm not sure what the counter to it would be.

When the Lord commanded the tithe, it was to be 10% of the fruit of your labor, not 10% of your income.

Responses?

probably woul dinclude our income plus a lot of other stuff.

[irishcowboy]

when I was growing up I lived in Wichita (for the most part of it, 1 & 2nd grade, 5th - 12th)

there was a man that went to our church (had gone there before I started going) when he accepted the Lord, he found the part about tithing and he asked what that really meant...

he started giving 10% and keeping 90%....

later, as his income increased, he kept the same amount of money, and added the increase to the tithe.... a few years (not sure the exact number of years) Mr. Storm was giving 90% and keeping 10% and the 10% he was keeping at the time was greater then the 90 % he was keeping when he first started tithing.....

what is it that is said? who are we that we should rob God of what is His? or how about what happened to Ananias and Sephira???? what about giving to God what is Gods and ceaser what is ceasers?

Mom and us never went with out what was needed, there were times us 6 kids did not get what we wanted, but then again, the word NO! meant NO! and it was respected as such..... Mom was not given much for weekly living, she gave as much as she could from the money she got, but she then also gave lots of time. mom gave several hours a week to work in the church, if we tithed our time, we would be giving 2.4 hours a day or 16.8 hours a week..... most people give only an hour for sunday school once a week, and then 1.5 hours once a week for morning service....... some people might give another hour sunday evening, and then even fewer will give an hour mid week..... total that would be 4.5 hours a week........

can you imagine if the church today did as the 1st century church did? EVERYDAY GATHERING AND FELLOWSHIPPING AND WORSHIPPING.... so long that a person would be sitting in the window for air falls asleep while the teaching was on going, and then falls to the ground below, and dies..... wow, what power the spirit has provided, that even during that , a man was raised back from the dead.

mike

[Guest HIS girl]

Out of my 10% giving of my finances- I give to the Church as well as anyone/thing that I feel led by the Holy Spirit to give.

It could include buying something for someone - shouting them lunch - giving them money, whatever the case maybe. I give according to how I am led by the Holy Spirit - out of the 10%. If I get any extra money on top - I always give. I am not at all surprised that God covers me financially when I am in need.

I REALLY like that last sentence, HIS girl! (if that was in the Bible, it would have a 'therefore' in front of it!)

but.... "shouting them lunch"?? does that mean they eat your words instead of their own?

LOL - "shouting" someone something in Australia means "paying FOR that person".

(and not expecting to have the "favour" returned - because it's God's money not my own!)