Tithing and other questions
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I'd prefer the word "supersede". There are some laws that are universally accepted even by non-believers and apply to human-kind in general eg "thou shall not commit murder".....Originally posted by happyharvest:So does that mean Jesus who came to fulfill the law has terminated the law. So we are no longer bounded by the law? -
Love the God with all your heart and love your neighbours. These are the summing of the old testament laws.Originally posted by Chin Eng:I'd prefer the word "supersede". There are some laws that are universally accepted even by non-believers and apply to human-kind in general eg "thou shall not commit murder"..... -
Why do you use the word "impose"??Originally posted by Chin Eng:the 10% tithe is not practiced universally. Some Methodist churches for example do not impose this 10%.
the idea is really to give back to God what He has richly bless us with, with the understanding that "God loves a cheerful giver". -
Impose - some churches keep emphasizing the need to calculate exactly what is 10% and make a church-goer feel guilty if the 10% criteria is not met.Originally posted by shade343:Why do you use the word "impose"??
Encourage - some churches will remind the church-goers that tithing is important and 10% is a good guide.
No rules - some churches pass the offering bag and one gives as he/she feels.
....beyond the Biblical teachings, one need to understand that this amount contributes to the operating income of the church. -
Hmm...I see.....Thanks...Originally posted by Chin Eng:Impose - some churches keep emphasizing the need to calculate exactly what is 10% and make a church-goer feel guilty if the 10% criteria is not met.
Encourage - some churches will remind the church-goers that tithing is important and 10% is a good guide.
No rules - some churches pass the offering bag and one gives as he/she feels.
....beyond the Biblical teachings, one need to understand that this amount contributes to the operating income of the church. -
So for methodist church, it is encourage or no rules?Originally posted by Chin Eng:Impose - some churches keep emphasizing the need to calculate exactly what is 10% and make a church-goer feel guilty if the 10% criteria is not met.
Encourage - some churches will remind the church-goers that tithing is important and 10% is a good guide.
No rules - some churches pass the offering bag and one gives as he/she feels.
....beyond the Biblical teachings, one need to understand that this amount contributes to the operating income of the church. -
The Methodist church in Singapore is divided into three conferences:Originally posted by happyharvest:So for methodist church, it is encourage or no rules?
Trinity Annual Conference or TRAC (Primarily English churches)
Emmanuel Tamil Annual Conference or ETAC (Primarily for Tamil people)
Chinese Annual Conference or CAC (Primarily churches which started as Chinese language churches).
The above DO NOT mean that churches within a conference speaks only that language ie. CAC churches also have English congregation.
They also do not mean that each church occupies different buildings. Some churches (buildings) houses congregation from the different annual conferences (eg Toa Payoh Methodist church, which I believe houses congegations from all three conferences).
The Methodist church has a conference fund for members to contribute, set currently at $65 per adult member. Each member is strongly encourage to contribute as this goes towards the running of the church admin and pastor's salary. Where offering and tithing is concern, I am sure there are Methodist congregations that very strongly "ENCOURAGE" the 10% guideline. My own church however do not have such encouragement. We give as we feel the need to give. There has never been any sermon preached on giving 10% in that sense of the word. Nonetheless, weekly contribution is still relatively strong.
.... and no, we don't have GIRO or PAYPAL for tithing.....
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Oh...so we are same....Originally posted by Chin Eng:The Methodist church in Singapore is divided into three conferences:
Trinity Annual Conference or TRAC (Primarily English churches)
Emmanuel Tamil Annual Conference or ETAC (Primarily for Tamil people)
Chinese Annual Conference or CAC (Primarily churches which started as Chinese language churches).
The above DO NOT mean that churches within a conference speaks only that language ie. CAC churches also have English congregation.
They also do not mean that each church occupies different buildings. Some churches (buildings) houses congregation from the different annual conferences (eg Toa Payoh Methodist church, which I believe houses congegations from all three conferences).
The Methodist church has a conference fund for members to contribute, set currently at $65 per adult member. Each member is strongly encourage to contribute as this goes towards the running of the church admin and pastor's salary. Where offering and tithing is concern, I am sure there are Methodist congregations that very strongly "ENCOURAGE" the 10% guideline. My own church however do not have such encouragement. We give as we feel the need to give. There has never been any sermon preached on giving 10% in that sense of the word. Nonetheless, weekly contribution is still relatively strong.
.... and no, we don't have GIRO or PAYPAL for tithing.....