Justin R. Lester says God cares that you give 10% of your earnings over the year, not which specific Sundays you give. You can give annually, monthly, weekly, or spread it out. He and his wife give on the 1st and 15th using recurring online giving.
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10% of earnings.
www.csbchurch.org/give
The 1st and the 15th of the month.
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So the answer to this question, short answer is whatever works best for you. Whatever works best for you. God doesn't ask that. It doesn't sit in heaven on first Sunday or fourth Sunday or second Sunday or third Sunday, fifth Sunday, and say, when are you giving? God is simply asking, over the course of a year, over the course of your lifetime, did you give 10% of your earnings? That's all God is asking for. And so if January 1st, you sit there and say, I'm going to give God all 10% for the entire year, then do it. December 31, you say, God, I'm gonna retroactively make sure I pay everything for the church for the past year on December 31st, then do it. God doesn't care when we do it. He just asks that we do it. We have the offering time in our worship experience so that we can give it right. But God isn't worried about how we do it when we do it. So one of the ways that we've tried to eliminate that barrier is our online giving. We have online giving where you can actually set up recurring payments to the church. And so my wife and I, for example, we give on the 1st and the 15th of the month. And on the 1st and 15th, it's automatically taken out right at the top of our budget. It's not a worry, it's not a question, it's not even a thought. It's automatically coming right out of our budget. Automatically. You can set that up today, actually. Www.csbchurch.org give. You can set up recurring giving where you don't even have to think about it. I sit in church on Sundays, and I already know that as soon as I got paid, I don't have to wait till Sunday. My money goes directly to the church. As soon as my wife gets paid, it goes directly to the church. It's the first fruits of offering. And so if you pay at the beginning of the year, or if you pay weekly or monthly, whatever works best for you, do what works best for you according to your budget. But at the end of the day, God is simply asking, are you giving me 10%?