I have a close college friend of many deacdes who lives nearby who is a Mormon in high standing. He has been tasked in past days to encourage members around here to ‘pay their tithes’ and has in fact sent out copies of the previous years tithing statements in an effrot to extract the ‘tithes due’. He receives his instructions and directions for this ‘work’ from Salt Lake, for your information.
What is wrong with encouraging somebody to keep a commandment of God? Reminding the members that tithing settlement is coming up and providing them with a list of the donations they have made over the year is standard operating procedure. Nowhere does the list specify how much those donations should be, it is just a factual listing of what I have donated. I’m the only one who can look at that list and tell if I’ve paid a full tithe or not.
How can I honestly tell the Bishop that the records concerning what I gave are correct if I don’t have a chance to review what those records say? Why try to make a simple matter of good bookkeeping into something sinister?