POOR FOLKS PAYING TITHE?

 

A theological question have I,

That some wish wouldn’t be tried…

Do debts come first

To be reimbursed,

Or is first to be paid, the tithe?

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A Scripture says somewhere,*

If you owe your brother, leave it there…

Go be reconciled

Til your brother has smiled,

Come back and then present there.

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Those with limited income,

Are they allowed to only give some?…

Til their debts paid,

These days they’re not laid

In prison til they’ve paid everyone!

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Certain TV preachers insist,

Pledging what you don’t have will be blessed…

One is blessed by increase

But when that’s ceased,

Is it okay to avoid money mess?

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Some have tithed and then had to live

On whatever the church could give…

If they managed their own,

Keeping more at home

Household funds might be less of a sieve.

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Does tithing “magic” make it always okay

To throw proper management away…

I wish preachers would take

More time to make

Messages for those of us who must pay!

 

–Jonathan Caswell

* Matthew 5:23-25