Before you pay your tithes this Sunday consider this: Should you pay your tithes to a 501c3 Church? A 501c3 church “simply” means that a church is organized as a tax exempt organization. Here’s a post on HushMoney that explains the facts, history, myths, and dangers of 501c3 churches. For instance, it’s a myth that a church will have to pay taxes unless they receive a 501c3 status. Churches don’t ever need to pay taxes. They don’t need to file for this status. Read the post to get all the legal and other details.
Why do you need to know about this?
Christians must not tithe to churches that are subject to governments that regulate what pastors can or can’t preach. Christ is not the head of those churches. Those churches are in submission to another master:
“No man can serve two masters for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” (Matthew 6:24)
“For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.” (Ephesians 5:23)
Therefore, your tithes are building up a church that has subjected itself to another master, not Christ. You have to seriously study this issue and seek the Lord’s guidance and courage on how to deal with this situation if you find yourself in such a church.
Some pastors (mainly of small churches) simply don’t know the legalese and may mistakenly think that they need to file for tax exempt status. Studying the matter and lovingly approaching your pastor may cause a needed and biblical change in your church.
On the other hand, many pastors are quite aware of this issue and its implications. You won’t get them to change their minds though. They love those weekly checks in the offering plates and they’re not about to take away the one incentive that gets “professing Christians” to give in the first place: tax deductions.
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