Originally Posted by Paint Rock 00
Dress how you feel comfortable. All out tie and jacket from shorts T-shirt. All good. Stop tithing and you will get the cold shoulder. $$$$ is what the church wants. If they didn’t they wouldn’t ask. This is a whole nother thread im sure.


No tithing mean you get shun.. that will not fly since some studies show that only 20 to 25% of the people give 95% of the support that a church receives. Lot of people must be getting the "cold shoulder". Besides how would one person know what another was giving?

Some churches find that only 5–25% of church members tithe, or donate 10% or more of their income.

Explanation
In the average church, 80–95% of people don't tithe.
The majority of practicing Christians give less than 10% of their income to their church.

According to the Barna Group's survey of US Christians in 2021, two in five practicing Christians tithe at least 10% of their annual income. Five percent of practicing Christians do not give at all, while 34% say they do not give a set amount.

But, of course, none of the above has anything to do with the original question/topic other than when PR said dress how you feel comfortable.

Last edited by Groundhawg; 03/09/25 11:01 PM.