10% to the church, or 10% overall?

While doing some research for an upcoming newsletter I ran across a missionary’s post talking about whether missions giving to individuals should be above and beyond the tithe. The premise is that the church has dropped the ball all too often, and not enough money is given towards taking the Gospel to every people. Instead it get sunk into sound systems and new buildings and salaries and insurance. Missions ends up, in the end, a small slice of the budgetary pie when it should be such a significant part of the institution’s agenda.

Read the article via this link.

Here’s another interesting church vs. missions giving article, something from Jews for Jesus dated 1985 via this link.

Here’s an article written by a journalist, formerly with YWAM in South Africa, who actually interviewed people by asking “Should missions giving be above and beyond a tithe,” via this link.