Go ahead and keep your 10%!

Cory Harrison adds-up how tithing really works

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y wife and I administer a corps in a fairly affluent community in the United States. We have soldiers at our corps, including ourselves, who “bring home” a fairly significant amount of money compared to about 95% of those we live life with as part of our ministry.

Like most churches, we have financial commitments, budgets to meet and expenses to pay out, a café that runs six days a week - and we have just agreed to provide three meals a day to all who live in our neighborhood. We estimate that we will see over 500 a day for those meals alone. We have just hired a full-time staff member to focus completely on evangelism, outreach and a crazy Salvation Army World Services goal.

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