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Roy wrote:
I really dislike that tithing especially is taught with this sort of blessing/cursing frame of mind. I wish that this notion would go away and that people would then choose to pay tithing (or not) because of an internal desire.
I feel strongly that God loves you. Regarless of your actions (willful and otherwise) and regardless of your relative “blessings” or life circumstances – He loves you!
Thank you for your contributions here, Roy. Well said.You’re a-ok. Just start paying now. Don’t bother talking to your Bishop about it. You didn’t sin. If you believe you have an unreasonable Bishop who’ll nit pick don’t bother going to tithing settlement this year. Nothing bad happens if you skip it. I often skip it because I just don’t think it’s that big of a deal. Heber13 wrote:Roy wrote:I really dislike that tithing especially is taught with this sort of blessing/cursing frame of mind. I wish that this notion would go away and that people would then choose to pay tithing (or not) because of an internal desire.
I feel strongly that God loves you. Regarless of your actions (willful and otherwise) and regardless of your relative “blessings” or life circumstances – He loves you!
Thank you for your contributions here, Roy. Well said.Amen, although I think the fallacy is that this can be taught to have desire.
It can’t be taught anymore then a person can wake up and say
“I will have charity today!”. It needs to come from within by random natural circumstances and reflection and thought.
You can’t really recreate a situation and expect it to stick to someone. Recreating and teaching don’t work like this. Unfortunately we try to. Let it happen naturally over time, we shouldn’t try to push or force the issue.
I haven’t read through all of the posts, so maybe someone answered the way I’m going to. My husband and I pay once a year in full at tithing settlement. We started doing this about two years ago. So far no one has said we shouldn’t. We still received our recommends. But currently they are expired. Is there somewhere in the church handbook that says that one needs to pay their tithing in increments or immediately upon receiving their paychecks. I don’t know of anything. I think you’ll be fine to just pay any that you missed when you’re able. ETA: Or do what your heart tells you. Quote:Is there somewhere in the church handbook that says that one needs to pay their tithing in increments or immediately upon receiving their paychecks.
No, there is no official statement about the timing of paying tithing.
Tacenda wrote:I haven’t read through all of the posts, so maybe someone answered the way I’m going to. My husband and I pay once a year in full at tithing settlement. We started doing this about two years ago. So far no one has said we shouldn’t. We still received our recommends. But currently they are expired. Is there somewhere in the church handbook that says that one needs to pay their tithing in increments or immediately upon receiving their paychecks. I don’t know of anything. I think you’ll be fine to just pay any that you missed when you’re able. ETA: Or do what your heart tells you.
I had a friend who took the parable of the talents as his rationale to invest his tithing wisely, grow it, and pay once a year including on the interest gained. Bishop told him as long as he could declare full-tithe by year end, that was all the bishop was instructed to ask.Heber13 wrote:I had a friend who took the parable of the talents as his rationale to invest his tithing wisely, grow it, and pay once a year including on the interest gained. Bishop told him as long as he could declare full-tithe by year end, that was all the bishop was instructed to ask.
DW and I found that our charitable tax deductions were near the standard deduction. We decided that in order to get the biggest tax break we needed to pay double tithing one year and no tithing the next. DW would only go along with it if we prepaid for the year because she was afraid that the temptation would be too great to keep the money at the end of two years. We moved after year one and our new bishop called our former bishop to confirm our story that we were current tithing payers even though we weren’t making payments. Neither bishop gave us any hassle.
PS – I’m not sure if this was actually a sound tax strategy, it was more of an expirament than anything else.
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