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#101
#101
T-TownVol said:
The Pastor tells his members to do and not do ALOT of things that are not followed.

The body of believers where I attend, do a fantastic job taking care of our members. We help with any "real" need of our body. We aid the community in many ways and spend 20% of our budget on mission trips that are, for the most part, service oriented.
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We also do a lot of stuff, we bring in 150 homeless people a night in our shelter and if the person is willing we will place them in a job and provide a home for them till they get on their feet. We send people to rehab for drugs, alcohol, gambling, etc.

We even have "non" white members..... oooooooo, aahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Which is shameful in most churches!
 
#103
#103
OrangeEmpire said:
Do people in your church piss and moan about 10, 15 or 20% tithing?
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not out loud.....they are not "put on the spot" by anyone either. It is their choice. If all our families were to tithe, we would have a budget of over 10 mil a year to do more service work with
 
#104
#104
rjd970 said:
Is everybody that tithes as blessed as you are? I'm only asking because you say this as a "cause/effect" matter-of-fact kind of way.

And as a side question, is everybody that isn't as blessed as you are just as responsible, hard-working, and intelligent as you?
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Not the point of tithing. Get down to it, one could give 50% of their earnings to God but if their heart is not in the right place it means nothing.

The person who can only give 1% with their heart in the right place will receive God's blessings.
 
#106
#106
rjd970 said:
Is everybody that tithes as blessed as you are? I'm only asking because you say this as a "cause/effect" matter-of-fact kind of way.

And as a side question, is everybody that isn't as blessed as you are just as responsible, hard-working, and intelligent as you?
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Nice "sucker" question.
I am speacking of MY relationship with God. I beleive that I made it very clear that tithing is a personal choice.
You know the answer to the "side" question.
 
#107
#107
OrangeEmpire said:
Not the point of tithing. Get down to it, one could give 50% of their earnings to God but if their heart is not in the right place it means nothing.

The person who can only give 1% with their heart in the right place will receive God's blessings.
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Go back a read what T-Town said, I was responding to what he wrote.
 
#110
#110
T-TownVol said:
Nice "sucker" question.
I am speacking of MY relationship with God. I beleive that I made it very clear that tithing is a personal choice.
You know the answer to the "side" question.
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But you said your blessings are a result of your tithes. You are 100% sure of this.

So the reasoning would go that anybody who tithes like you should enjoy similar blessings. Otherwise, it isn't your tithing, it is your relationship with God. Of which, again, would have to be more special than others because you are especially blessed.

I'm just saying, I think you give too much credit to God, and not enough to yourself.
 
#113
#113
droski said:
so are all the good thngs that happen to you because you tithe and all the bad things happen because of what exactly?
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nice try
I will say that the bad financial things that have happenned are also from God, he kinda knows how to test me and to help build me up
 
#114
#114
OrangeEmpire said:
Not the point of tithing. Get down to it, one could give 50% of their earnings to God but if their heart is not in the right place it means nothing.

The person who can only give 1% with their heart in the right place will receive God's blessings.
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well said
 
#115
#115
rjd970 said:
But you said your blessings are a result of your tithes. You are 100% sure of this.

So the reasoning would go that anybody who tithes like you should enjoy similar blessings. Otherwise, it isn't your tithing, it is your relationship with God. Of which, again, would have to be more special than others because you are especially blessed.

I'm just saying, I think you give too much credit to God, and not enough to yourself.
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Which is why you are not a christian and would only be one if you were forced to by a giant hand in the sky with fireworks.

:banghead2:
 
#117
#117
rjd970 said:
But you said your blessings are a result of your tithes. You are 100% sure of this.

So the reasoning would go that anybody who tithes like you should enjoy similar blessings. Otherwise, it isn't your tithing, it is your relationship with God. Of which, again, would have to be more special than others because you are especially blessed.

I'm just saying, I think you give too much credit to God, and not enough to yourself.
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this is where we will have to disagree my friend
 
#118
#118
T-TownVol said:
nice try
I will say that the bad financial things that have happenned are also from God, he kinda knows how to test me and to help build me up
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Been there, going through that currently. When the wife lost her job was an oh crap what we doing moment.
 
#119
#119
T-TownVol said:
nice try
I will say that the bad financial things that have happenned are also from God, he kinda knows how to test me and to help build me up
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i see. so the fact i've never had any bad financial things happen to me means what exactly? besides me having good financial sense that is. . .
 
#123
#123
droski said:
i see. so the fact i've never had any bad financial things happen to me means what exactly? besides me having good financial sense that is. . .
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You're a godless heathen from the west coast, so that makes you exempt from the "tithing requirement for blessings" clause of the contract.
 
#124
#124
droski said:
i see. so the fact i've never had any bad financial things happen to me means what exactly? besides me having good financial sense that is. . .
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the world is full of non-believers that are very wealthy....that is irrelevant to MY relationship with God

Your "path" in life is your choice
 
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