mattech
Deranged Throat-Puncher
I've been struggling with this for a couple years now. About 10 years ago the pastor at the church we went to gave the exact sermon and promised our money back. We were already tithing, but decided instead of a flat rate, we needed to truly tithe every Gross (before taxes) penny we made. We did so for many many years and had a happy heart about it. Then all of a sudden our pastor got caught in a scandel with fooling around with a married women. He was fired and all of a sudden our church was broke. I quickly became soured that I've given this church enough money to buy a new Cadillac, and all they do is cry they are broke,all the while I'm sitting in a 4 million dollar sanctuary with 2 100" projection screens. We have changed churches and are now at one that is great and truly gives back to our community and to other countries, but I am still soured deep down in my heart and asuch as I say I'm going to start back tithing, I just can't.i need to and I want to, but I just can't make that leap.