An Inconvenient Truth [About Our Stewardship]
In a posting dated January 22, 2007 from The Outbox of the Presbyterian Global Fellowship, Mindy Beard writes about…ÂÂ
An Inconvenient Truth
Matt Vande Bunte of the Religion News Service published a convicting article last week calling the church to take a long, hard look at our latest financial situation. Tithing is on the decline for the fourth straight year, down 18 percent from 1968. An annual study of church giving “theorizes U.S. Christians could evangelize the world, stop daily deaths of 29,000 children younger than 5 worldwide, provide elementary education across the globe and tackle domestic poverty - and have $150 billion left over annually — if church members tithed a full 10 precent of their income.” Instead the study concluded that the average American spends almost four times as much on entertainment than church giving. The leader of the study points to poor vision and lack of good church leadership as reasons for the problem. The article was a reminder of the responsibility we have as Christians to give faithfully, and how detrimental it has been to the world when we have failed to do so.
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July 8th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Hello
I can’t be bothered with anything these days, but shrug. I just don’t have anything to say recently.
G’night