praise_yeshua said:
FSSL said:
How do pastor's support their family?
How does a church pay for its ministries?
How do missionaries get sent to foreign countries?
Get a job.
Get a job
Get a job where at all possible. Train native peoples to work in their own countries. They can GET A JOB where foreigners can't.
Much of the argument/discussion/disagreement has to do with the model of church a person subscribes to.
If there is a form of leadership in place where that person does the majority of teaching and preaching, and administrates the activities of the church, most people in that model see that as necessary and important, and so empower that person to do so.
If you have a random table talk everyone shares, no one administrates, no one sees the importance or necessity of contributing.
Add to that some Christians are simply covering covetousness by excusing tithing, and we find a hundred reasons not to, and only a few to do so.
I meet people often who's main reason for not tithing is that we are under grace not the law. I remind them that as grace based people, we ought to do more than the law, and they say yes, so I ask if they then give more than 10%, and the answer is invariably no. Their argument/reasoning is invalidated by their lack of consistency.
Giving is done out of gratitude. Structured giving is simply looking into the scriptures for a guidleline. The guideline is easy to find.
