Should You Tithe as a Couple?
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Practicing generosity to your local church is a wonderful thing to do as a couple. John and Greg address how they've learned give regularly to their respective church congregations. Also, Jim Daly speaks with Bob and Linda Lotich on why God wants us to be cheerful givers.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, we're told in the Bible in the book of Acts, chapter 20 that we're more blessed |
| 0:10.0 | to give than to receive, but are you doing that in your own family as a couple? |
| 0:14.8 | Are you giving to the church and to other good Christian causes? |
| 0:18.4 | Well, we're going to talk about that today. |
| 0:20.4 | I'm John Fuller, along with Greg Smalley, and Er Aaron is a busy woman. She's not here today. |
| 0:25.0 | We'll hope she's back soon Greg. |
| 0:27.0 | Yeah, feeling a little bit under the weather. |
| 0:29.0 | Okay, well, let me ask, in a previous episode you mentioned about how you've made giving to your |
| 0:36.3 | church automatic, you do this just an automatic deductible, how did you and Aaron come up with a giving anybody away and then b. How much to give to the church? |
| 0:47.6 | Yeah, I think for Aaron and I had started with really digging into the scriptures. So what is the Bible saying about tithing and stewardship |
| 0:56.0 | and you think about a Leviticus, you know, 2730, |
| 0:59.3 | a tithe of everything from the land |
| 1:01.1 | belongs to the Lord. |
| 1:02.1 | So I mean, our money, I mean, that's really the Lord. |
| 1:04.9 | Tite this biblical talk for 10% dish. |
| 1:07.6 | Absolutely. |
| 1:08.6 | Proverbs 39, honor the Lord with your wealth, with the first fruit. |
| 1:12.8 | So the very first and best of what we earn, |
| 1:16.6 | we want to give that back to the Lord. |
| 1:18.1 | So Aaron and I started by just really digging in |
| 1:21.8 | and going, what does that mean for us then as a couple and then |
| 1:25.5 | we made that a matter of prayer and really seeking guidance you know asking |
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