"If you build it, they will come…" says the movie. So I'm going to keep blogging here in hopes that people will figure out that the blog is back.
Today's installment is another tragic tale of religious legalism gone wrong. If you need evidence that tithing causes mental retardation religious legalism, this is it.
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/sep/25/250033/na-church-employee-says-she-lost-job-once-tithing-/
" Carolyn Jackson and her husband gave a lot of money to Revealing Truth Ministries.
So three years ago, church staff encouraged her to apply for a job there.
During the work week, she served as a receptionist and later as its magazine editor. On Sundays, the Jacksons filled church baskets with thousands of dollars in tithe, offering and other giving.
In May, Jackson lost her job, not for poor performance, but because her tithing had dropped off. In a time of financial difficulty for her family, Jackson stopped giving 10 percent of her income to the ministry, which many Christians believe is biblically mandated."
The ironic part of all this is that she still believes in tithing!
"Jackson notes that she and her husband never stopped tithing, they just weren't giving as much. "I believe in the tithe," she said.
Jackson has not found work and she and her husband continue to look for a new church to call home.
Whatever congregation they join each Sunday, they always leave their tithe in the offering basket."
This isn't the first case we've heard of here at City Business Church, as we've had first hand accounts of staff at City Bible Church suffering the same fate. If you are going to insist that tithing applies to Believers (we don't), then the recipients of tithe money shouldn't tithe because they are the reason for tithing! The recipients of tithing in the OT were Levites and the poor, widows, orphans, and aliens. Asking them to tithe is like asking them to give to themselves and it's no different with modern tithing. A church that requires their employees to tithe is just a clever disguise for a mandatory pay cut. This isn't a demonstration of faith, it's just clever manipulation. If my boss told me that I had to make a "voluntary" contribution to the company's general fund or face being fired, I'd start looking for a new job.
Hmmmm, sounds familiar. The Mormon’s require a mandatory tithe don’t they? Except with the Mormon’s it isn’t clever manipulation it’s simply required. I must say, it keeps those new Wards springing up in all the new subdivisions in our state. No one can afford to make house payments but by golly our church looks so lovely and successful.
Between the Mormon’s and Blue Cross/ Blue Shield and the hospitals, they’ve all got major building projects going with Monet-like gardens on every corner, our city looks like one big city park.
A case of church leadership taking advantage of people
WOW SERIOUSLY
What is wrongggggg with people???????