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Today's question comes from Daniel and Oklahoma. My church is very big on encouraging its members regarding tithing.

Our church leadership recently said, do not focus on investment for retirement, but focus on investment

given to church in the Word of God. Retirement investment can go up and down, but investment

in your church, and God's word will always prosper. Should we stop investing in order to fund

our local church? Well, if all caps, if a leader of the church said this to an individual, to you, or

corporately from the platform, if they said this, this is not biblical, Dave. And so the answer

would be a resounding all caps no from us. It would be a resounding

changed churches. Yeah, this is if someone's doing that. Let's walk through what portion of this

is accurate. And I don't know if you've twisted this or not, Daniel, or you heard it through a

different lens of some kind. So I'm not positive what church leadership has said other than what you told us.

Okay.

So we have to go on what you told us because it's the only information we have.

Now, number one, the tithe is not in place of retirement.

The tithe is a tenth of your income.

The word when you look it up in the Hebrew

or in the Greek, Jesus used the word tithe twice, when you look it up in, it literally

means tenth. It means 10%. And evangelical Christians have taught for over a thousand years

that we believe that a tie, the

tenth of our income, goes to our local church to support the work of God. So if you're

attending a church, you're an evangelical Christian, that's a standard teaching in a Baptist church,

in a, you know, any kind of normal Protestant church out there, that a tenth of your income,

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