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Encouraging the Tithe: Growing and Giving in Grace

American Baptist Policy Statement, adopted by the General Board of the American Baptist Churches, June 1992

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The American Baptist Churches USA's own General Board policy statement on tithing, adopted June 1992, stating throughout that tithing is a grateful response to grace rather than a legalistic obligation or a requirement, and calling on American Baptists to move toward and beyond a ten percent norm through preaching, teaching and personal testimony rather than through any tied consequence for a member's standing.

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Tier 1: the denomination's own General Board policy statement, adopted June 1992 by a vote of 163 for, 0 against, 1 abstention, downloaded directly (curl with a standard browser user agent) and read in full from disk as a PDF. States plainly and repeatedly that the tithe is "not a legalistic obligation, but an opportunity for grateful response," that it "is a response, not a requirement," and closes with a call to action urging, not mandating, a denomination-wide practice of tithing "with the biblical 10% as the tithing norm."
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American Baptist Churches USA (General Board)
Publication Year
1992
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https://www.abc-usa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/TITHE.pdf
Source Type
church body
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Baptist, Denominations

This source names Baptist directly: "The American Baptist Churches USA's own General Board policy statement on tithing, adopted June 1992, stating throughout that tithing is a grateful response to grace rather than a legalistic..."

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  • Denominations, 5 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 general references.
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