Given the above, it is clear that any church mandating tithes should be spending AT LEAST ONE THIRD of their income on the poor since that is what was required under mandated tithing. How many churches come close to this?I know of none. Yet it is not uncommon for some ministers to cal...
Quick Sidenote:If this post encourages you to give less, then you’re reading it wrong. Rather, regardless of whether or not tithing is REQUIRED, the goal of this post is to help us all shift our motivation from legalism to one of voluntary, sacrificial, and cheerful generosity as Paul l...
Link is here.General Authorities do not pay tithingWe don't know what the current practice is, but according to Michael Quinn, the apostles exempted themselves from tithing in August 1844 [emphasis added]:In August 1844 the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles issued an epistle which required all ...
Payment of tithe is obligatory toChristian faithful. An Old Testament commandment, it is made popular by Malachi 3:10, where Christians are required to give 10 per cent of their income to God through the priest. If faithfully adhered to, the act is said to attract rich blessings from the ...
Tithing is even more obligatory on the saints of the New Testament than it was upon God's people in Old Testament days?not equally binding, but more binding, and that for two reasons: first, on the principle of "unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required" (Luke 12...