Words From The Pastor

It is working for me.

When I was a small boy, in Tennessee, I observed my father paying dues to the church on the small amount of income he received from share cropping on a small farm.

Just after I completed high school and moved to Nashville, naturally, being a member of the church at home made me seek out another church for membership away from home.

I heard the preacher at this church preach on tithing. It struck me that in all my reading, I did not understand the word Tithe. At the end of the sermon, I made up my mind to tithe because God said it was fair, honest and just.

Therefore, since college days, I have become a tither. If I had waited until I could afford to tithe, I may never have started.

I believe in tithing, I preach tithing, and I am a tither.

I believe every Christian ought to tithe because God expects it, demands it and the church should command it. I tithe to acknowledge God's overall ownership of everything. I take my stand with psalmist, "The earth is the Lord's and everything that's in it." I pay my tithes to God through His church, because it is the only method God has of financing His church. Tithing keeps me honest before God and true to myself.

I pay my tithes and give an offering because of the promises of God. The nine tenths I have go much farther when I give God His one-tenth.

Mary Crowley was truly a remarkable woman. She started her own business with a small bank loan she received to get started. In all her years of hardship, she was a constant tither. When Home Interiors became a multimillion-dollar business, she continued her tithing principal by saying, "I dish it out and God shovels it back in."

God has a bigger shovel and a bigger plan. "I will pour you out a blessing you will not have room enough to receive."

In light of this, I will continue to pay my tithes and give an offering to God through His church because, it is working for me!

I Dare You to Open The Window Of Heaven - Malachi 3:10