That’s very sad. I am a member of a non-Roman Catholic Christian Church.
(It’s not “protestant,” in that it doesn’t care, nor was it established by a “break away” group. Any sinner who wants Christ as his boss is welcome.)
Anyway, I served as an elder for a while and we did pretty much the same study, using checks as our guess. It looked ot us that we had about 75% of 300 families giving (what we guestimated to be, based on employment) about 6-8% of their take-home pay.
I have no idea why we do better. Might be a fluke related to our little church.
Nah, Catholics just don’t have an expectation of ‘tithing’, unless they happen to have a priest who puts an emphasis on stewardship.
That all sounds well and good, but I would say that any sinner that wants Christ as his boss, should not pull the lever for a President that is openly going to appoint pro abortion judges to the Supreme Court.
For full disclosure, I am only a sinner saved by Grace. There is Scripture that says when a member of the Church continually does something terribly wrong, you are to confront him. If he continues then you tell the Elders and they confront him, and eventually when he rejects that counsel, you have nothing more to do with him.
Sorry I do not have the Scripture at hand at the moment, and for sure we are not talking about a struggle with sin as we all have. Some struggle with very serious issues and we are to love them and forgive 70 times 7 times Jesus said.
This Scripture was referring to very very serious anti Christian positions that were harmful to the Gospel of Christ.
People that attend Churches that are pro abortion and anti Christian family values, fit this Scripture in my very strong opinion!!
Churches that allow their members to vote Democrat in any way shape or form fit this Scripture. Jesus will say I never knew you, is what I think.
I was not referring to anybody here btw, I just got a mail message asking me to join the conversation, so sorry if I am off topic a bit in some of your minds. It`s just that I feel so strongly about this, I turn on so called Christian Churches on the tv, they say they love Jesus but they vote Democrat. I CHALLENGE THAT THEY ARE EVEN CHRISTIAN.
Anybody that claims to be a pro choice/pro abortion Christian, I have no use or respect for you at all.
Again not referring to anybody here.
So maybe you want to withdraw my invitation? If you ever had a Democrat sign on your property and you say you are Christian....I CHALLENGE