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To: Rambi who wrote (61780)	4/25/2008 4:25:37 PM
From: Suma	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541635

Tithing is done once a year when PLEDGES are made. How does one determine how much to contribute throughout the year.. It's done on a percentage basis. I know of churches where it is ten percent of your income..... Now deposits are made every Sunday but the concept is that in one year you will have met your Pledge. This was done in the Lutheran Church in which I was reared and my parents did it. It is done in the churches friends of mine attend as they have said ten percent right now was too much for them. The church depends on that money for everything it does from administration to salaries etc. I don't know whether a church could continue to function on gratuities. It has to be pledges from it's congregation... members.

To: Rambi who wrote (61780)	4/25/2008 4:39:16 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541635

Suggesting that Obama's failure to tithe says anything at all about him is really reaching. What bugs me about tithing is that it's so anal, divorced from the spirit of giving. Why do you have to give the same amount every year? Because churches have ongoing programs with budgets. Has nothing to do with the church member's lifelong relationship with god. The calendar is irrelevant to that. Churches are like unions. They have insinuated themselves as middlemen and have their own needs to feed, not necessarily in the best interests of the original two parties. End of rant.