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Originally Posted by Aquila
We aren't Catholic. The pastorate isn't a little papacy with total authority. The elders of the church are "servants". What they do with the funds gathered by the body is entirely the body's business. This is why most churches have open books in regards to finances for their "members" to review.
The "offering" was all that was collected in the NT churches! LOL Remember, they didn't have big buildings and big bills for nearly 300 years. Your average church gathering in the first 300 years of Christianity was only between 15 to 30 people in a single home based meeting. These "house churches" spread through Rome like wildfire and turned their world upside down in just one or two generations. They didn't collect "tithes". They facilitated the needs of their elders and the needy among them through generous love offerings. They had no "storehouse".
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And how much did the apostles ask? Lands, houses? Please tell me how this is better than simply asking 10% as a standard across the board so that people don't give TOO much and put themselves in trouble or give too little and miss out on the blessings of God?
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