Anyone who has spent any amount of time in any Christian church is familiar with the story of Jesus’ commenting on a poor widow giving her last mite to the treasury of the Jewish temple. Throughout the years of my attending church services, this story has always been one of the ways religious leaders have tried to prompt or guilt people [...]
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The widow’s mite: a lesson on religious abuse
Posted by Harry A. Gaylord on February 15, 2009
http://sunandshield.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/the-widows-mite-a-lesson-on-religious-abuse/
Some reasons why churches want your tithe
In his book, The Second Coming of the Church, Christian sociologist George Barna discovered five basic ways that church leaders in America judge the success of their ministry. They are as follows: congregational size, size of church facilities, scope of the ministry, budget size, and pastoral credibility. Out of these five, pastoral credibility is the most [...]
Posted by Harry A. Gaylord on February 17, 2007
http://sunandshield.wordpress.com/2007/02/17/some-reasons-why-churches-want-your-tithe/
Free from the law of tithing
Did you know that Christians are never commanded to tithe? This is something that religious leaders would never want you to know but Christians are not required to give a specific percentage of anything to the church. We are free to allow the Holy Spirit lead us in the amounts we should give, when we [...]
Posted by Harry A. Gaylord on February 15, 2007
http://sunandshield.wordpress.com/2007/02/15/free-from-the-law-of-tithing/
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