Where exactly the UPCI got tithing from?

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by coksiw

You mean NT tithing of all income? My best guess is from when joining with the PAW.

At the beginning of the Asuza revival Seumour was very critical of preachers earning salaries, even from tithing (or accusing them of preaching for money). But towards the end, he was a lot "friendlier" to the concept, and even testified of some tongues and interpretations mandating it (year 1908):



So, the tithing was kind of a strong concept from the beginning of the American Pentecostal movement.

As contrast, the Apostolic movements (oneness, Acts 2:38) oustide of the USA, didn't have tithing as a core doctrine, but slowly, over the years, the UPCI traveling around the world convinced many of those ministers to join the UPCI and depart from their original Apostolic Movement.

Here is an example from "To the end of the Earth" book from Bernard:



That book is an interesting read, BTW.

So no one actually knows where exactly the UPCI got tithing from?
We are just led to believe they just adopted tithing from other Pentecostals up the line from them in their lineage. In other words, Elder so and so did it so they just accepted it. The teaching being a good way to get paid, put food on the table and keep the lights and heat on in the church building. It looks like we narrow this subject down to Apostolics outside the USA didn’t do tithing. Therefore since Andrew Urshan came from Persia when did he convert to tithing? Anyone have information on this?