News today:
A recent poll by pollster George Barna shows that only 5 percent of Americans say they tithe, or give at least 10 percent of their income to religious congregations and charitable groups. According to other studies on church giving, congregants give an average of 2.58 percent of their income to their churches. That’s down from 3.11 percent of their income in 1968, according to studies published by Empty Tomb, a ministry that studies church finances. “Tithing is in decline,” said the Rev. William Hull, a research professor at Samford University and a Baptist minister. “The older generation was taught to tithe. It’s not being taught very much any more.”
Oh, it’s being taught. It’s just not being practiced.
