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He said, “Pastor, my best guess after looking at the whole situation is that the average fam-ily at Calvary is giving between two and three per cent of their income to the work of the Lord here at this church.”īetween two and three percent. I asked Vern what his estimate is of the average giving of the average family here at Calvary. He’s the one who notes down the checks that come in and he’s the one who writes down the different categories so you can get credit for your giving at the end of the year. Add to that the fact that in the last several years, Chris-tian financial speakers like Larry Burkett and Ron Blue have told us that the average evangelical Christian in Amer-ica is giving somewhere between two and three per cent of his income to the Lord’s work.īefore I preached this sermon I talked to Vern Hendrikson who is the receiving treasurer here at Calvary. That two percent includes the Community Chest, the Boy Scouts, the Red Cross, the United Way and it also includes all the churches and synagogues of America. Recently the Gallup organization released a poll showing that in 1987, the last year for which statistics are available, American church members of all denominations gave on the average two percent of their income to all charitable activities. It is important for us to know about this because of the financial condition of the churches of America. So it’s import-ant for us to know about this because there’s so much confusion.Ģ. And you will find people all along the spectrum in between those two positions. On the other extreme there are those people who say that tithing belongs under the law and has no relevance whatsoever for Christians today. We find people who would say that the tithe is binding upon Christians today and that all Christians without exception are to tithe all the time. In fact, all the way along the spectrum there is confusion. One commentator says one thing and another commentator says something else. You go to another church and the pastor says something else. You go to one church and the pastor says one thing. You listen to another Bible teacher and he says something else. You listen to one Bible teacher and he says one thing. It is important to talk about because there is so much confusion over this issue. As we begin, I would like to suggest three reasons why this is an important subject.ġ. It is a subject that preachers preach about, teachers teach about, and it one that is much discussed by Bible students. That is the subject of great and perennial interest to Christians. This morning we’re taking the subject “To Tithe or Not to Tithe”. Why Talk About Tithing?ĭuring this series we are taking a look at what God has to say about the way we spend our money. I hope you won’t tune me out, because before I’m through I do have a few startling and unusual things to say to you. We think we know what’s going to be said and so we don’t pay much attention because we’re pretty sure we’ve heard it all before. Well, I have no doubt that most of us are like most of those other guests. When President Roosevelt said, “I murdered my grandmother this morning,” the ambassador leaned over and whispered in his ear, “I’m sure she had it coming.” God bless you.” He finally got to the end of the line and here came the ambassador from Bolivia.
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As each person filed by, he reached out to shake hands and as he did so he murmured, “I murdered my grandmother today.” Several hundred people went through the line and as he would say, “I murdered my grandmother today,” they would say, “Congratulations. So one day at a reception he decided to try an experiment. He felt that many times people weren’t paying attention to the things that he was saying to them as they would pass by and shake his hand. Perhaps you’ve heard the story of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, that great charismatic leader, who grew weary from having to be in so many receiving lines at the White House. People feel like they already know what he is going to say before he says it.
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Chief among those problems is the problem of boredom. There are certain problems a pastor faces whenever he talks about the subject of giving.