Subject: I won"t be saved if I don't tithe |
Bible Note: We support the church the way we can, but as I said love offering is the way we give as a doctrine of our church. Paul said that we have to give in purposes of the heart. not ten pewrcent but any purposes of the heart. You said"Do you believe a workman is worth his hire? In other words if someone provides a service for you do they deserved to be paid?" My andwer: if in spiritual manner we believed in "freely receive you freely give" as Jesus Christ mentioned to His desciples. Do you believe you should support the ministry? If so how much should be set aside to give? What portion of your income should be used to support the church? The pastor? the ministry? As I said in my previous post, our pastor (brother preacher) has thier own job, they receive thier salary from thier job or business, they dont get thier income from the church. The discourage anyone to receive salary from the money of the church. We give to the ministry not to shoulder the salary of our pastors but to provide help to our unfurunate members, and the other needs of the ministry. Our founder so to speak (of course Jesus Christ is the founder of the Church) run his business such as restaurant and other business that he have in order to support the ministry. He tried to be like paul that support his evangelical mission by working and not by receeving tithes to his members. We also not receiving donations or help in non-member of the church we discourage that, in every worship that we have we put a notice that we dont receive love offering from our visitors and non-member. Again, we survive, by not giving tithes but love offering, this the teaching that give by Jesus Christ. Give as want you can, if we can give more than half of our income it is ok but we never required anyone. God bless, Johnny |