If you work hard and are smart with your money you will please the Lord. You will not be in need from anyone and will have a profit you can share, if you choose to.
I seem to remember the Lord only asks for 10%!
Many unbalanced “omnipotent busibodies” who are busily engaged in what they call, “saving the planet” , also want us to pervert justice by favoring the poor. Leviticus 19:15 “is a helpful correction” to that notion.
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“..But the “theologies of liberation”...go on to a disastrous confusion between the poor of the Scripture and the proletariat of Marx.
“In this way they pervert the Christian meaning of the poor, and they transform the fight for the rights of the poor into a class fight within the ideological perspective of the class struggle. For them the Church of the poor signifies the Church of the class ..” - Pope Benedict XVI - Theologies of Liberation http://www.newadvent.org/library/docs_df84lt.htm
“..an authentic...theology: [is] one that puts:
[1] God and the life of the spirit first,
[2] DIRECT charitable care of others second,
[3] and only then draws consequences for a just social order.”
- Pope Benedict XVI http://ncrcafe.org/node/1091
***I seem to remember the Lord only asks for 10%!***
The OT Lord or Jesus?
The only NT references to supporting the Church come from Paul. Plus, we have more support for Sunday as the Lord’s day rather than Saturday, for our Judaizing friends. :)
1 Cor 16:
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1 2 Now in regard to the collection for the holy ones, you also should do as I ordered the churches of Galatia.
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On the first day of the week each of you should set aside and save whatever one can afford, so that collections will not be going on when I come.
2 Cor 9:
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So I thought it necessary to encourage the brothers to go on ahead to you and arrange in advance for your promised gift, so that in this way it might be ready as a bountiful gift and not as an exaction.
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Consider this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
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Each must do as already determined, without sadness or compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Nothing about 10%. Just give what you can.
"If you choose to." Exactly.
"I seem to remember the Lord only asks for 10%!"
We're not under the Old Testament Law now where God _commanded_ his people to "PAY" a tithe. Today, we're under New Testament Grace, where God tells us that he loves a "cheerful GIVER".
He even gives us the example of "The Good Samaritan" and all the lessons that entails.