I think it's safe to say that just about
everyone has been in a church at one time or another, where the pastor was
always asking for money. This is not good. I realize that some
pastor(s) won't like my article; but that's ok, you've been wrong before.
Respectfully, America's pastors have a reputation for being greedy and
unreasonable when it comes to money. A man wrote to me recently,
asking for my opinion on tithing. I felt the need to publish an
article, as this is a problem in our churches today, and people are
gratefully coming to me for
my humble opinion.
I disagree with the 10% tithe teaching. Paul said to give as we are able. With the U.S. dollar down 37%, millions of Americans losing their homes, 37,000,000 more living in poverty, and all our jobs going overseas... it is unethical and ridiculous for any pastor to hound his people for money.
If everybody stopped tithing, it would be a Godsend to America. Compromised and lazy preachers would get busy for God. I really hate the notion that people are supposed to support religion. That's not what the Bible teaches. We are to support God's man, the soulwinning preacher, the missionary, so that he can do God's work. Where did air-conditioning, new cars, plush carpeting, bigger buildings, vacations and and all the fancy stuff come into the picture? I just think that 90% of God's money goes for things we really don't need. America is going to Hell while preachers live high on the hog. Something is wrong.
Benny Hinn alone took in over $100,000,000 last year. It's sickening. The same mentality causes people to drop their offering in a plate every week, and most are just wasting their money. I received a letter yesterday from a woman who wanted to know if it was wrong for her pastor to take up an offering for his birthday. Oh brother. I told her to find another church. The tithe is God's money. Just as the Levi priests abused their provisions in the Old Testament, so do most pastors today rob God. It is the pastors who are robbing God, not the people.
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Believer's%20Corner/tithing_sensibly.htm
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Believer's%20Corner/tithing_fools.htm
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Believer's%20Corner/bread_and_butter_christianity.htm
