It's been 2,000 years, so why do we believe that Jesus is coming soon?

That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity.

Well, hi, this is Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez.

We pray that you had a wonderful Easter.

This is the radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day.

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Core Christianity.com. First up today, let's go to Chris calling in from Nashville, Tennessee. Chris,

what's your question for, Adriel? Hi, can you hear me? Yeah, I can hear Nashville, Tennessee. Chris, what's your question for Adriel?

Hi, can you hear me? Yeah, I can hear you, Chris.

All right, hey guys. My question is, how should pastors ties and also people who are in the ministry or missionaries, but I'm pretty much wanting to know about pastors, like, how do you,

what do you do, Adriel, with that situation? What do I do? That's a, uh, a great question. I've actually had this conversation with other pastors, um, before. I, I don't know what everyone does. I can tell you what I think, you know, we ought to do. I think it's, it's good to give a tithe,ithe, even to the church are a part of now, or the church are ministering in. Now, of course, a tithe, I believe, was specifically a part of the old covenant. And so I don't think that we're bound to the tithe in the same way that the believers under the Old Testament were.

But I do think that the tithe is a helpful baseline in terms of thinking about giving to the work of the gospel and the local church.

Specifically, you know, you have Paul's exhortation in 2 Corinthians chapter 9 where he says,

whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly and whoever

sows bountifully will also reap bountifully each one must give as he has decided in his heart

not reluctantly or under compulsion for God loves a cheerful giver so for everyone whether you're a

pastor or not, I think the

exhortation is, don't give reluctantly and don't give under this sense of compulsion, you know,

just out of a heart of bitterness or something like that. No, we want to give to the Lord and to the

work of the gospel. And we want to do so with joy because the Lord loves

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