20% OF SBC PASTORS AND 31% OF OTHER PASTORS–PLEASE SPEAK OUT!! JOIN US!!
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(SBC LIFEWAY) FACTS AND TRENDS MAGAZINE, Mar/Apr 2006; pg 14-19, for complete article.
If one out of five (20%) of SBC pastors and regular church members freely admit that they disagree with the tithing doctrine, then 20% should be enough of a REASON to re-study the doctrine.
This does not prove that they are against supporting the church! It merely proves that they are against supporting it using the Old Covenant principles of tithing.
Baptists flourished for over 300 years without teaching tithing. Perhaps they should restore their old paths of evangelism and Training Union instead of restoring the Mosaic Law.
“An exclusive study conducted by Ellison Research for this issue of Facts and Trends indicates that [ONLY] 51 per cent of a church’s laity believes there is a biblical mandate to tithe to the local church. However fewer than 1 in 10 actually gives 10 per cent or more of their income to any cause or organization.” (p14)
The survey involved 811 Protestant ministers and 1184 church members who attend church at least once a month.
BIBLICAL MANDATE TO TITHE TO THE LOCAL CHURCH:
| All clergy | 56% | 44% do not agree |
| All laity | 36% | 64% do not agree |
| SBC clergy: | 76% | 24% do not agree |
| SBC laity | 51% | 59% do not agree |
BIBLICAL MANDATE TO TITHE, BUT NOT NECESSARILY TO THE CHURCH:
| All clergy | 12% [+56%] | 68% some kind of tithing |
| All laity | 23% [+36] | 59% some kind of tithing |
| SBC clergy: | 4% [+76%] | 80% some kind of tithing; 20% NOT! |
| SBC laity | 28% [+51%] | 79% some kind of tithing |
BIBLICAL GIVING NOT BY SPECIFIC PERCENTAGE:
| All clergy | 20% |
| All laity | 27% |
| SBC clergy: | 12% |
| SBC laity | 16% |
OTHER REPLIES:
| All clergy | 11% [+20%] | 31% DO NOT! |
| All laity | 15% [+27%] | 42% DO NOT! |
| SBC clergy: | 8% [+12%] | 20% DO NOT! SBC |
| SBC laity | 4% [+16%] | 20% DO NOT! SBC |
