Comments on: Protection

By: Notswallowingthekoolaidbutstillin

Notswallowingthekoolaidbutstillin — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 05:22:09 +0000

Yeah, well I just recently joined after the senior Mog got caught doing some not so cool things and resigned so I figured things my get less fundy in his absence, and I got my giving envelopes and I just refuse to use them, I put my cash in the offering plate and I have been pretty faithful to give what I have purposed in my heart cheerfully between me and God. Part of me is just daring someone to treat me different because they can’t keep a record of what I give.

By: grace2live

grace2live — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 01:19:47 +0000

It depends on the church you’re in. In some churches, you’re on the honor system and everybody just takes you word for it. In other churches, you have to actually produce your paycheck stubs and your canceled checks to prove that you have been tithing. How private all that is depends on the church too. Finally, if you’re lucky enough to teach in a Christian school attached to the right kind of church, they will helpfully take the 10% right out of your paycheck before you even see it, so you don’t have to worry about that pesky “cheerful giver” stuff. It’s especially good if they don’t tell you about that before you sign the employment contract.

By: grace2live

grace2live — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 02:12:31 +0000

Two true stories about tithing: at my old church, the teachers in the attached Christian school had to give 10% of their gross back to the church or lose their jobs. They weren’t kidding about it either. I lost mine for that very reason. Later they made it more convenient and just took the 10% off before they paid you.

At another church in our area, you have to submit 6 months worth of paychecks and prove that you’ve been tithing from it in order to apply to become a member. And it’s not even a fundy church.

By: Gr0g

Gr0g — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:16:50 +0000

Love the site, Darrell. IFB bible college student that I am, I figured this ‘protection’ was referring to the hedge about Job.
e.g.,
“God allus protects them what submit to Preacher’s authority and follow the rules. When you don’t, you step out of the Hedge, and a bus runs you over.”

@Ron Bean- I’m stealing your quote.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:54:36 +0000

LOVE it!

By: charlene

charlene — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:03:23 +0000

What’s sad about this story is that I went to an IFB church, where the people who recorded the tithe would gossip about who gave and who didn’t. It was a really small church so every one knew everything.

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:22:55 +0000

I’d give them the bank account number for the checking account in which I only deposit 1/4th of my paycheck (it’s not terribly large anyway, but that’s not the point). Of course, I have been known to be a sneaky little [insert choice word here]. Nah, forget that, you know I’m lying. If they asked for that info, I’d run like hades – after shaking the dust off my proverbial sandals!

By: Camille

Camille — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:29:41 +0000

I think the vocabulary actually fits in this case. The other option is to get out the whips and start doing the Jesus-thing in the courtyard.

My church growing up wouldn’t let you “serve” if you didn’t tithe. I heard about it as a Junior-Higher and was appalled. I still am.

I was always a bad ass.

By: Ron Bean

Ron Bean — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:07:24 +0000

I think Thomas is exaggerating. And I also think that vulgarity is the vocabulary of the unintelligent and diminishes one’s credibility.

By: Stephen Bean

Stephen Bean — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:01:23 +0000

I’ve never heard of access to bank accounts either, and my fundy creds were quite solid.