cartoon: church money

Hmmm Dave…..Fear and guilt? We wouldnt want something biblical to work would we!?

Why do we live in fear or with greed anyway?

Hang ups? I will freely tell you – I have a ton of them!!! lol Have you ever met anyone without any?

Thank God my “morphing” is out of relationship – not religious duty!!!

It’s interesting (and you hear it all the time) that it is about tithing that God says, “Test me in this.”

So I guess it’s not so much what people are telling you what you should do (fear and guilt)–people have the option to experiment and try it for themselves.

It seems to me that living sacrifices ought to be giving a whole lot more than 10%, and that a church full of ’em will use it for something other than pot lucks and nice carpet.

Here’s a paraphrase of Paul’s command to how to respond to the gospel, narrowly applied to the topic of money:

Since God has completely by His own initiative, through His own power, which is His righteousness in His Son given to you through faith, SAVED YOU FROM HELL; by that same mercy, now give as much of your money as you possibly can to His work without being irresponsible to your family. (Rom1:1-12:1, qualifier from 1Ti5:8)

Yeah, I know that’s a pretty significant qualifier on the end, and we can bicker all day about what that would entail, but how you think about it will reveal to you whether you a cheerful giver or view worshiping the Savior with your wallet as a form of tax code in which you are glad to find a loophole.