My church constantly reminds us of Malachi 3:10
This event still bothers me. I know my church brings in $$$. We have expanded to three locations. We should've helped the guy.
In my reading I found Deuteronomy 14:28
10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.
I had a fellow usher mention to me he was homeless. I referred him to our pastors for help. I was told the church doesn't have money and the church is going to refer him to charities. Eventually, my brother usher left the church mentioning "Why should I serve a church that will not help me?"
This event still bothers me. I know my church brings in $$$. We have expanded to three locations. We should've helped the guy.
In my reading I found Deuteronomy 14:28
28 At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year’s produce and store it in your towns, 29 so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
This scripture says to me that the church should be giving away 1/3 of it's money to help the less fortunate. Is this a correct interpretation?