[Rudy]

Originally Posted by Roxanne Murphy

Well, since we have resorted to anecdotal diatribes to try to hide the glaring lack of scriptural support for tithing under the New Covenant, I have a lot that I can tell. Here are just a few:

The precious widowed saint in the church, living on a fixed income, faithfully tithes, lives very simply, is involved in everything she can be to help support the church: she has the 'privilege' of attending district Family Camp in her late seventies only because she stays in a dorm room and works hard in the kitchen to pay her way, while the pastor and family of the church she supports stays in the nicest accommodations and they are served the best food before anybody else is served.

In another church, the assistant pastor (also the pastor's son-in-law) does not see a good reason to temporarily house a family from the church that has fallen on hard times due to the downturns of the economy; rather, the perfectly functional and vacant house on the church property is kept empty because the assistant pastor's recently widowed mother (who is living across the country near her other preacher son) 'might come back' and he would have her live in that vacant house (former parsonage but the 'poor pastor' moved into a much nicer home years ago). That family with children had to live in their car.

I have a 9'x9' tent they could have set up on church property. Next to the vacant house if that is ok?