Tithing - Gross or After Taxes?

[Northern Crofter]

I don't believe anyone here is doing it for the purpose of bragging but rather trying to provide their personal thought processes on the subject in order to help another brother who seeks to be faithful.

I think he was just making a pun on the word gross...

 

[DanSSwing]

Ahhh... that did seem a bit out of character for him. I don't get puns when I'm low on coffee.

 

[Ploutos]

Ahhh... that did seem a bit out of character for him. I don't get puns when I'm low on coffee.

Coffee should always be paired with a good cinna-pun.

 

[SeanPatrickCornell]

Maybe as an initial set of training wheels. But it's the difference between law and grace. The law asks "What's the amount I am duty bound to give?" Paul says, "How much am I able to give in response to the love I have received?" You can't really get from the first question to the second; they are entirely different in kind.

Personally, I think if we are going to insist on tithing, we should also insist of the law of first dough (Num 15:18-21): whenever anyone in my congregation makes a loaf of bread (or a batch of brownies), the first piece must be given to the pastor.

For a fuller explanation of the tithe laws, and their relation to Christian giving (including general equity application), there's a handy little book here:

Amazon.com

I got your ebook and I found it very helpful, Dr. Duguid.