tithes and offerings

I am about to finish the sale on my house will likely make a decent sized amount from it. I am new in my city and haven't completely settled on a church yet (although close). I'm just wondering about tithing with this amount since it's likely to be much larger than a normal paycheck tithe. Do I...

The subject is essentially about using your tithes and offerings to help needy people you know as opposed to giving them to your local church. What do you think of this? Personally I have done this sort of thing from time to time, especially when I was in between churches, or knew of a...

AND, IRS rulings aside, should churches be keeping record of or recognizing individual giving? (No room for this in space allowed for title.) Allow me to offer three other's comments first: "Still, it is also possible to have outward works but no inner reality. In this instance, religion is a...