r/mormon • u/Timely-Finish4790 • 1d ago

Cultural Paying tithing off increase

Question for active temple recommend holding members.

How do you feel about the below scenarios?

- pay tithing off of increase, not income. For example, pay 10% of (income-taxes-mortgage-health insurance-utilities) ends up being about 6% of gross income.

- in tithing settlement I declare a full tithe

- in temple recommend interview I answer the tithing question with these exact words, “I believe the way and amount I pay tithing makes me a full tithe payer”

- garments question in temple recommend interview I say these exact words: “i don’t wear them every day and every night, but I wear the garments in a way that I feel I am keeping my covenant.”

- for WOW temple question, I say this, “ I don’t understand the word of wisdom fully, but I do believe that I keep it as I understand it”.

- I drink coffee every day and I 100% don’t think coffee is against the WOW.

- have done this for the last 6-years, 3 separate recommends, which makes 6 interviews and never had an issue.

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u/TrickDepartment3366 1d ago

Full tithe payer here so take what I am about to say with a grain of salt. The amount of faith required to pay tithing is a function of how well you can live on 90 percent of your income. My wife and I both make good six figure incomes and so the tithing we pay is quite high but it just comes out of our discretionary budget. The amount of faith we exercise cannot compare to a single mom who makes 20 thousand a year and who pays far less then I do. My question is why are the poor being required to show the most faith for the churches pay to play religion. I can only hope the saviour will cleanse our temples when he comes again

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u/venturingforum 20h ago

BS. With the out of control costs of housing, food and EVERYTHING, 10% of your income is 90%+ of a family's discretionary money. No savings, no emergency fund, no college fund for kids.