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Originally Posted by MoneyGuy
I'm a Christian and have knowledge of lots of denominations and churches within denominations and have yet to see a church that requires tithing, other than some of the cults which exist to get your money and your mind anyway.
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But they do exist, they're even mentioned in that WSJ article I posted.
The churches I attended didn't make it a requirement of the membership, just of those in leadership.. and it wasn't a "you have to do this" kind of thing, it was just understood that to be in leadership you had to show a certain level of commitment to God and have a specific level of obedience and tithing was part of that, just in the same way that someone in ministry couldn't be a bad gossip or have a drinking problem or be divorced or in a relationship outside of marriage or any number of other things.
And if someone in ministry or leadership went that way the church would work with them to try and get them back to what they should be doing but if they couldn't then sometimes they'd be asked to step down. Just like if someone in ministry was found frequenting a strip club or was overindulging in alcohol or any other number of things that would show the person wasn't in submissions to god.