The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum proper recipient of our tithes/offerings

That Calvin quote hit it right on Denny. It should be the Spirit of God convicting and moving men toward salvation. Church membership should be a benefit of that not "they have a great blah-blah-blah program."

There are a lot of folks who look at the tithe as a measure of personal piety. Well, SBC folks anyway. I noticed that most of the sermons I ever heard on the subject were from the OT and we discussed this here a year or two ago. I mean, recently its all been covered up with good stewardship and other labels. At the root of it, though, I think it does more harm than good for a church to have too much money--which is what happens when everyone gets "convicted" about their "tithing".

I guess that goes for a denomination too.