We give 5% of our gross income to our church. We also do a lot of in-kind service such as driving elderly folks to church each week, and staying late to clean up after coffee hour.

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Anonymous wrote:We try to donate 10% to some charitable causes or the church. I’m not giving 10% to my church because they’d use it for something stupid like an organ or fancy carpets. I try to give enough to pay my fair share of building maintenance and support for the priest, which ends up being a couple thousand a year. The rest goes to relief organizations, women’s shelters, environmental organizations, etc. Here on earth, God’s work must truly be our own.

Do we go to the same church? The one with the new carpet and furniture that looks like the lobby of a boutique hotel?

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Anonymous wrote:Those of you who tithe, do you give the full 10% to the church or do you interpret this to mean that you can give some of it to missions or any other cause you find worthy

We give most to the. church. My grandfather was a pastor until his church hit a financial bump. They cut his already meager salary in half. Clergy kids deserve to eat, too.

Really? Are the kids of the clergy going hungry now?

When the church won't pay pastors enough to feed their kids, it's definitely time to look for another job -- and maybe question their faith.

Just want to emphasize that "the church" that is paying the pastor is nearly always the congregation, made up of individuals. Very few denominations have central organizations that pay into local churches. If my fellow congregants don't give, our minister doesn't get paid.

I was 10 years old the last time I had a minister who was a parent -- it's very difficult to afford a family and most ministers I know are single.

Liar
Most have kids

Bible says to give your grain offering to a levite priest

You are free to pick and choose what charity you want, whether it is missions, local church or a wildlife conservation

Nothing in the Bible contradicts that.
Ministers are not poor, they live in large homes, drive nice cars, eat good food and all their kids have college funds

The last posters must be Republican haters. No open-minded tolerant Democrat would ever write things like that.

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Anonymous wrote:You people are crazy.

Why? It costs money to run a congregation. If we want the community to be there, we need to support it.

So it is like a tax, or a HOA fee.

Anonymous wrote:I truly hate giving my money to the US govt for social programs. It's such a waste.

I love giving my money to my church for all the good social programs they do. I wish i could transfer my tax money to my church.

Poor people don't need charity, they need justice. Church can't provide that.

Anonymous wrote:If you write me a check for 10k I'll guarantee you make it to heaven. Funny how people recognize this as a scam, but when a church says it... Its all good.

It is a bribe.

Anonymous wrote:Our church (LDS) mandates 10% gross income in order to be considered temple-worthy. We cannot enter the celestial kingdom (highest level of heaven) without doing so. We would not want to be separated from the other members of our family, including our children.

So the church speaks for God now?

I give 1% of my gross to my church. I give the other 9% of my gross income to the many other organizations I also believe in.

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Anonymous wrote:Those of you who tithe, do you give the full 10% to the church or do you interpret this to mean that you can give some of it to missions or any other cause you find worthy

We give most to the. church. My grandfather was a pastor until his church hit a financial bump. They cut his already meager salary in half. Clergy kids deserve to eat, too.

Really? Are the kids of the clergy going hungry now?

When the church won't pay pastors enough to feed their kids, it's definitely time to look for another job -- and maybe question their faith.

Just want to emphasize that "the church" that is paying the pastor is nearly always the congregation, made up of individuals. Very few denominations have central organizations that pay into local churches. If my fellow congregants don't give, our minister doesn't get paid.

I was 10 years old the last time I had a minister who was a parent -- it's very difficult to afford a family and most ministers I know are single.

We try to donate 10% to some charitable causes or the church. I’m not giving 10% to my church because they’d use it for something stupid like an organ or fancy carpets. I try to give enough to pay my fair share of building maintenance and support for the priest, which ends up being a couple thousand a year. The rest goes to relief organizations, women’s shelters, environmental organizations, etc. Here on earth, God’s work must truly be our own.

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Anonymous wrote:Those of you who tithe, do you give the full 10% to the church or do you interpret this to mean that you can give some of it to missions or any other cause you find worthy

We give most to the. church. My grandfather was a pastor until his church hit a financial bump. They cut his already meager salary in half. Clergy kids deserve to eat, too.

Really? Are the kids of the clergy going hungry now?

When the church won't pay pastors enough to feed their kids, it's definitely time to look for another job -- and maybe question their faith.

Not all pastors get paid. Some of them have faith so strong they are willing to work a full time job AND pastor a church.

Well, if that works for them, great. I prefer a celery who has time in the day for congregants.

Then I hope you donate to the church! Not enough people donate to mine so it’s either close the church or pastor gets a full time job AND pastors. He’s choosing the latter.

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Anonymous wrote:Those of you who tithe, do you give the full 10% to the church or do you interpret this to mean that you can give some of it to missions or any other cause you find worthy

We give most to the. church. My grandfather was a pastor until his church hit a financial bump. They cut his already meager salary in half. Clergy kids deserve to eat, too.

Really? Are the kids of the clergy going hungry now?

When the church won't pay pastors enough to feed their kids, it's definitely time to look for another job -- and maybe question their faith.

Not all pastors get paid. Some of them have faith so strong they are willing to work a full time job AND pastor a church.

Well, if that works for them, great. I prefer a celery who has time in the day for congregants.

I prefer peanut butter with celery.

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Anonymous wrote:Those of you who tithe, do you give the full 10% to the church or do you interpret this to mean that you can give some of it to missions or any other cause you find worthy

We give most to the. church. My grandfather was a pastor until his church hit a financial bump. They cut his already meager salary in half. Clergy kids deserve to eat, too.

Really? Are the kids of the clergy going hungry now?

When the church won't pay pastors enough to feed their kids, it's definitely time to look for another job -- and maybe question their faith.

Not all pastors get paid. Some of them have faith so strong they are willing to work a full time job AND pastor a church.

Well, if that works for them, great. I prefer a celery who has time in the day for congregants.