A thought on tithing - Page 26

navygoat1998 · #**251** 12-13-2012, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by AreYouReady?

Did anybody dare answer that they were a tipper?

He knew he watched the book and keep track of the tithes.

AreYouReady? · #**252** 12-13-2012, 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by navygoat1998

He knew he watched the book and keep track of the tithes.

ok

deacon blues · #**253** 12-13-2012, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by seekerman

Imagine my disappointment when I read the bible and found that the Romanist system of buildings called 'houses of God' along with the pseudo aaronic priesthood of men making themselves Lord over God's kingdom wasn't part of the New Testament church at all. I knew then that I had been foolish and fooled.

You guys need to get out more often. There are a lot of churches that aren't like the ones youve experienced. I'm sorry you had some negative experiences, but it's not monolithic out there.

deacon blues · #**254** 12-13-2012, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by The Lemon

Hey Deacon,

After reading and pondering many of your posts, I am thinking that at least in my own Church experience, I have lacked the exposure to really being in the communities as you say.

Maybe I should come to your neck of the woods and see how its done. From what I see and from my little experience, the structure and the tradition in OP is to go to church on Sundays and Wed nights...amen the preacher, pray, speak in tongues, go to the alter and go home...week after week, month after month ect. Now , I'm not saying there is anything wrong with praying, speaking in tongues or any of that necessarily....but everything is encapsulated in the church house and structure...it all revolves around that.

Seems like you would be the type of pastor to go out in the street on Sunday morning and be the church rather then just meet in a building all the time and play church....am I wrong on that assumption?

I try to get out in the community every day. In fact I spend more time studying at Starbucks than I do in the office. For a while I worked at Sbux. This year earlier, a former barista I worked with got saved and joined our church along with her fiancé. I've been here 12 years. It's taken a while to get the OP cobwebs out of our church culture. But we're working in it. We host early voting in our community and that has really elevated our exposure in the city. We just had a meeting tonight about getting involved with the inner city ministry a mentioned earlier. You've just got to decide if you're going to be a church to please church people, or are you going to be a church reaching for outsiders.

Walks_in_islam · #**255** 12-13-2012, 10:09 PM

Does sending out warning letters to non-tithers follow what Jesus instructed his disciples to do or not?

I contend it does not and I contend that online high-five for this by certain un-named ministers exposes them as something besides what Jesus taught to do. If so, what does it make them?

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Originally Posted by deacon blues

You guys need to get out more often. There are a lot of churches that aren't like the ones youve experienced. I'm sorry you had some negative experiences, but it's not monolithic out there.

deacon blues · #**256** 12-13-2012, 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Walks_in_islam

Does sending out warning letters to non-tithers follow what Jesus instructed his disciples to do or not?

I contend it does not and I contend that online high-five for this by certain un-named ministers exposes them as something besides what Jesus taught to do. If so, what does it make them?

Warning letters to non tithers? Bizarre.

deacon blues · #**257** 12-13-2012, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by AreYouReady?

Did anybody dare answer that they were a tipper?

Proper tipping would be 15-20%.

Aquila · #**258** 12-14-2012, 06:47 AM

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Originally Posted by deacon blues

I try to get out in the community every day. In fact I spend more time studying at Starbucks than I do in the office. For a while I worked at Sbux. This year earlier, a former barista I worked with got saved and joined our church along with her fiancé. I've been here 12 years. It's taken a while to get the OP cobwebs out of our church culture. But we're working in it. We host early voting in our community and that has really elevated our exposure in the city. We just had a meeting tonight about getting involved with the inner city ministry a mentioned earlier. You've just got to decide if you're going to be a church to please church people, or are you going to be a church reaching for outsiders.

Steve Epley · #**259** 12-14-2012, 07:38 AM

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Originally Posted by deacon blues

proper tipping would be 15-20%.

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seekerman · #**260** 12-14-2012, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by deacon blues

You guys need to get out more often. There are a lot of churches that aren't like the ones youve experienced. I'm sorry you had some negative experiences, but it's not monolithic out there.

It's pretty well monolithic when it comes to the church embracing a modified Romanist system. Go to google maps, search for "Dallas, TX churches" and you'll see what I mean. You'll find hundreds and hundreds of buildings called 'churches' which are built not upon New Testament teachings but on Romanist teachings.