Discover the single most important personal finance principle. Perhaps you think it might be to live below your means. Although that is certainly important to a healthy personal financial life, it's not the most important. It's not to get out of debt either. In fact, I have trainings on why debt can be good! It's also not to pay yourself first or even to own your own business, although those two are both quite important too. Nor is it to invest in real estate even though you may have thought that I would said that. No, the most important personal finance principle is...
What Do You Think is the Most Important Personal Finance Principle?
- Is it live below your means? That’s great advice and simple, a lot of people don't follow it. In fact, I have a video called Personal Finance Wisdom You'll Hear Nowhere Else. In it I talk about the power of being frugal when it comes to personal expenses and post-tax expenses, then being very aggressive when it comes to pre-tax or business expenses. I'm a huge fan of living below your means, but that's not the most important principle.
- Perhaps it is to get out of debt? The G-O-O-D, the good principle? It's not that either. In fact, I think you need to be careful when it comes to paying off debt. I have a video which proves why you shouldn't pay off student loans early. I'm also a proponent of never owning investment rental real estate free and clear, but instead always have long term fixed rate, low interest debt against that real estate. I have a video on that as well because it makes such a big impact on cash on cash returns.
- Maybe it’s to pay yourself first. It's a timeless principle, the idea that before you start spending the money that you earn, you set some aside for savings. This is also a great principle, but it's not the most important.
- Is it to own your own business? Obviously when you own your own business, you're in control of your time, and you can be in control of how much money you earn. I put together a video directed toward graduates on how they can become wealthy more efficiently than through the traditional means of getting a job, saving a little bit of money on the side, and then slowly building up. I've talked about how powerful it is to own your own business and to run that successfully, and then take those profits and invest them. Is this the most important principle? It's an important one, but not the most important one.
- How about to invest in real estate? You're thinking, "That’s what you've been driving at Phil, because you're a real estate investing guru, you want everybody to invest in real estate." Well, interestingly, this is also not the most important personal finance principle. You know me, I wrote the book on how to be a real estate investor, and I do think that real estate is the ideal investment. You get the income from it if you own it long term and you can get depreciation, so that makes that income more tax advantage. If you buy it correctly, you get instant equity. You also get the potential for appreciation, and you can use leverage to acquire it. I think it's the ideal investment, but it's still not the most important principle. What is the most important finance principle?
Giving is the Most Important Finance Principle
Giving is Returning
When I was back in my homeless days I was attending a church. One day when I went, and the message was about tithing, which I knew nothing about. I had been to church as a kid, and I saw the plate go across the aisle, but I didn't really know what it was all about. The pastor was describing how in Malakai the Lord was telling the Israelites that they had robbed him in tithes and offerings.
The scripture says, "Test me in this 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 will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe".
Tithes and Offerings
What the pastor was preaching was that we should test the Lord in this idea of tithes and offerings. This is the only place in the Bible where the Lord says to test it. Challenging us he said, "Give it a test." I had about $200 in my pocket because I had refereed pee-wee football the day before. That was all my money for the week, so I gave $20, which is 10% of what I had (biblical tithing is to give a 10th).
You may be thinking that you don’t have 10% to give. I know, I didn't have 10% then either. In fact, that was the difference between me eating beans or being able to go to Subway one day that week. That said, what did I have to lose? I was already broke, looking for ideas and willing to test some things. I gave it a shot and here's what happened.
Test the Lord
A few days later I was going to check my mail at a PO box. I received this envelope and opening it up I discover a cheque for $200. To my surprise the return address was of a property that I had rented along with three other college buddies about a year prior. The money was my deposit being returned to me when I rented that place. Now I must tell you, this was back in my party and heathen days and we left that place a wreck. I was the last one to leave, and I remember walking out seeing the mattresses and the torn carpet thinking, "Oh my gosh, we're not getting our deposit back. We might get a big fat bill instead."
Seeing my deposit returned, especially since it was a year later, was a complete miracle. Later I learned what had happened. The property belonged to Vanderbilt University and they demoed it after we moved out to build a new building. I guess by law they had to give us our deposit back because of the demoing. I don't know why the accounting took so long. Then I tried to figure out how they found me, because I had a PO box, and it turns out that it was through mail forwarding. The timing was miraculous, but there were some logical explanations. The point is, I put $20 into the offering plate when the pastor told the entire congregation to test him, and a couple of days later and I had $200. I was sold.
Giving Impacts Everything You Do
This is not a cosmic vending machine and there's a lot I could cover on this topic. However, I want you to look at giving as the single most important principle in personal finance because it impacts everything you'll ever do. It's the wind at your back. It is the thing that ultimately overcomes those circumstances that are truly outside of your control. Some of you know what I'm talking about. You're doing all these things, but there are circumstances in your life that you have no control over that have pushed you back down.
For about the last eight years I have been giving the offering message at my church periodically, giving me pretty good handle on this subject at this point. I've talked to thousands of people, both who have participated in giving consistently and those who haven't, and the bottom line is this. It's the most important principle.
Giving is Stewardship
I refer to giving as returning because it's all the Creator's, everything. Any power you've been given, has been given to you by the Creator. The power to get wealth and the power to do anything. It is the Creator that owns everything, and we are stewards of it. When you have that perspective, it really shapes the way you look at giving. I'm not giving what is mine, I'm returning what is His.
Giving Creates a Healthy Relationship with Money
Or as R.G Letourneau, one of my favorite Christian entrepreneurs says, "It's not how much of my money I give to God, it's how much of God's money I keep for myself." If we look at it in terms of returning, that also sets the context for a healthy relationship with money. It eliminates greed because we're not looking at it in terms of what’s mine, but rather with the mindset of being productive with the time and talents the Lord has given us. We can also ask ourselves, “What can I do to impact society?"
Giving Impacts the World
When you are returning to the Creator effectively, what you're also doing is impacting lives. I often hear people wanting to know what their purpose in life is. I can assure you of this, your purpose in life is not completely selfish. Part of your purpose in life is to impact and help the greater good. It really is.
Giving Provides Purpose
When you're searching and praying for your purpose, remember that it's probably more likely that your purpose is going to impact others versus just impacting you. If you're returning, it's also making a huge impact on the world. It also means that you don't look at the idea of personal finance from the perspective of reaching some level, such as early retirement and then stopping. Instead you look at it from the perspective of, "The more productive I am, the more I can help others." You don't get caught in the trap of early retirement.
The More Productive I Am, the More I Can Impact Others
A lot of you wonder why I still work. I don't need to, and I haven't needed to in a very long time. However, one of the reasons I continue is because I'm a part of this returning program. Not at the 10% level, a lot higher than that. If you've ever watched the movie Office Space; I don't wear the minimum amount of flair, I try to go to the max.
The more productive I continue to be, the more I can impact other people's lives. I have no interest in retirement. You will not see me talking about retirement on my videos. Instead I'll tell you about being more productive. This also helps create a healthy relationship with money.
Giving Leads to Blessing
Earlier I was mentioning this idea of a cosmic vending machine. That’s not how returning to the Creator works. The Lord loves a cheerful giver. This is about you bringing back to Him what is rightfully His and then receiving His blessing, but it doesn't always mean money. I’m not talking about prosperity gospel here. There's a lot of other ways to be blessed besides money. Here’s the thing, He has it all. You see, God has a bigger bucket, so the more you shovel at him, the more he's going to shovel back at you. There's no way you can catch up.
I think it's so important that you recognize this is not about putting something in and expecting something back. You're putting this in because you are already more than blessed. Chances are you are in the top echelon of anybody in the world. You're already crazy blessed, right? This is about returning to the Creator and that gives Him the opportunity to bless you even more in every aspect of your life.
Where Should I Give?
I love that question. In fact, it was John D. Rockefeller, one of the wealthiest people in history, whose biggest challenge was where to give the money. He could earn it more efficiently than he could find the right organizations to plug those resources into. These days, we have a lot of great organizations. I believe money is like manure. If you let it pile up, it'll stink, but if you spread it around, it will fertilize. When it comes to the subject of returning, I recommend you don't return all to one place. If you are a Christian and part of a church, you are called to tithe 10% to your local church. That is a standard, and then everything above that is where you can get flexible.
Give Locally and Globally
One of my favorite organizations is Compassion International for sponsoring a child. I sponsor a lot of children across the world. It's a remarkable organization. Third party, independent studies have proven their effectiveness, so I’m a big fan of Compassion. I also support Samaritan's Purse, which is Franklin Graham's organization. They are typically first responders to disasters providing aid, they are a remarkable organization. I do quite a bit in contributing to missionary work worldwide, as well as give to my local community's missionary work. I was one of the founders of Orlando Serve Foundation, which is a homeless organization that does extraordinary things for the homeless community in the central Florida area.
Orlando Serve Foundation
Orlando Serve Foundation hosts events in local community centers helping the homeless get their driver's license back so they can get a job. We help them overcome certain legal matters and things that just get them stuck, and there are no other organizations doing that. At these events we bring in judges and technology so they can literally hold court. By doing this we solve some of the problems that the homeless have that are holding them down,, for decades in some cases. Recently I heard this story:
There was this one gentleman. He was formally a successful business owner, but some legal problem had literally wrecked his business and his life. His wife and two children were living in a motel. The week of the event he had become so angry that he was at the point where he was going to kill the people that had caused him all those legal problems. He wasn't going to kill what he called innocent people, he was going to kill the people that ruined his life.
This man went to the He Got Up event with Orlando Serve Foundation, and got plugged in. After two years of him not being able to do it himself, he got some of his legal matters headed on the right track. He gave his heart to Jesus Christ, and his entire world changed that day. It wasn't just his world that changed that day, but also the people that he planned on killing that he didn't. The point is, when it comes to this concept of returning, it's about impacting other people's lives and spreading the blessing around.
You Are Called to Give
The great news is there's an enormous amount of amazing organizations that need more financial resources. In some respects, that’s what you've been called to do. You've been called to produce great economic results, so you then can spread them around wisely and fertilize those amazing organizations that are impacting thousands, if not millions of lives.
I also see this as an amazing opportunity for our country, which is so divided politically right now. If everyone was willing to be a part of this returning program, think of the amount of money that could go into these private organizations that could then help. That way we aren't always asking the government to do this or do that. We have private organizations to do it. I don't want to get too political, but I see a greater dream here.
I hope this helps you better understand the passion I have for this. Some of you might find this controversial, but I'm telling you, you will not find someone who's been on this program for any length of time to say, "Boy, my life's miserable." You won't find it. Test the Lord in this, he tells you to do it. Test him in this and see what happens. You'll see, it is remarkable the way he can bless your life.
Thanks Phil, I also see a Greater Dream Here- Helping Others and Testing Our Lord…..
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PRAISE GOD!!! I love you!!! You are so cool, right on, knowledgeable, FUN and easy to listen to you.
Thank you for your time teaching us.. YOU ROCK!!!!
How do I get started to do what you do? So may people promise to make me rich but they only want my name and email. Tell me how to know who is real. Thanks
Continue learning everything you can and consider working with a mentor.
Thank you for speaking for our Lord He does bless when u give!
This is investing in the only thing that you can take beyond this world; your heavenly future. Great video Phil, you are one of the rare few who is truly an honorable person. This is very different than most of the Youtubers, Instagramers, etc. in this modern society who preach excess, selfishness, and self-absorption. Great video and inspiring story at the end.
Not saying this to brag but to encourage and spread the good word. There is an organization which was founded by David Wilkerson, an amazing pastor similar to Billy Graham, called World Vision. They donate to disaster relief, missionary work, installing fresh water wells, and feeding families in underdeveloped countries. This is another avenue to tithe.
Thank you for your inspirational videos Phil; you are a good man.
Thank you Phil!
Once i truly learned to be a chearful giver.. I have more than once had to ask God to stop giving to me so much..
I did not have the capacity to bear it!!!
Also for those reading; its ok to let God help you learn to help others around you as your led by the Holy Spirit. Let Him be your teacher and guide.
Currently im recovering from a brain and spine injury 13 years later…
I finally realize all good things come from God. We are stewards as Phil said. Good or bad we are stewards.
I agree with Mark.
It all comes down to obedience and faith(in Jesus, for everything!- complete surrender)
Much easier said than done, but trust Jesus. He will help and be with you every step of the way.
And there will be many hard times ahead. But trust in Him for life and you will not regret it. He will never leave you or forsake you!!!
Thank you and Happy Giving:)
P.S. the more of Gods love you have for others; the easier it is to give.
And the rewards are truly out of this world. Be a cheerful giver.
And try to do a fair share of giving in private. And God will reward you openly! He sees what you do.
What an amazingly awesome subject!
I dare you all to trust God in this one thing. Now when He keeps His promise. Be prepared to trust and obey Him/ seek His Face and live for Him. He has more amazing things planed for you than you can imagine!
In every part of your life!
Trust Him. Surender to Him.
Embrace your destiny; obey Him and seek His Face!
Thank you God for using Phil to remind me to keep giving!!!
Thank you Phil for being obedient to God and sharing about giving!
This all might seem a bit heavy to some but just test what the Bible says about testing God with giving.
God never lies. Hes always faithful and He’s waiting for you..
Love Always,
Nate
P.P.S.
Dont forget to thank the one who kept His word about your chearful giving. All Mighty God/ your loving Creator
I noticed being truly thankful and greatful to God for all He does for you and those around you..seems to compound all the many blessings!
Love never fails!!!
Great video, I believe 100% in tithing. Really enjoyed this presentation , putting first things first.
Thanks, Phil. I needed this.
Amen. In this Blessed month of Ramadhan, be generous.
Thank you Phil, a beautiful and perfect reminder.
Awesome video Phil. I’ve been a Christian almost my entire life. However, it was not until I started tithing to my local church that my business and personal finances really turned around in a wonderful way. I plan to continue tithing the rest on my life to my local church and anything beyond the 10% to preferred charities. God owns everything and everyone on earth. “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it” Psalms 24:1. God loves a generous person. “One man gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty. A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed”. Proverbs 11:24-25. Thanks for sharing Phil.
Phil, I remember my poor financial time. I was raising 4 sons as a single mom . I volunteer in the BSA scouting program for 14 years producing 2 eagle scouts. During that time, I received money, clothes and jobs from family and friends.Presently, I am in the real estate business. I give meals to my workers and take off the animal fee at Christmas time to my renters. Giving is fun to do. The joy on peoples faces is worth it. Thank you for your videos. Your knowledge on this business has help me in so many ways. That is a gift too.
Thanks, Phil. Be as wise in investing Gods money as you are with your own.
Thank you for spreading the word of God while you teach us the principles of life and business.
wow…great video
Thanks Phil, My the great fun for years..
still learning
Preach Phil!
I’ve never heard anyone in the business world speak on tithing like you with such boldness! And as a Christian I know it works great job!
I love it, love it, love it! I agree 100% and He is our ultimate Provider! So glad you are representing in this way!
Special Olympus Of Florida, is a great place to give back.
Phil,
I admire you for speaking up and putting this into the right perspective. Many will get it! Right is right! Thank you!
Thanks Phil
Awesome stuff!
Phil, after this video, and watching you for some time, I am ready to apply to the apprentice program. However, I am receiving a server/IP error and your site is not letting me submit my application. Thanks.
Make application here.
Thank you Phil,
I did ask God to give me a sign if I should help a dog with a infection ?
I don’t have a lot today, but the owner can not go to the vet now.
This is my answer from God your video.
You don’t know how important is for me that sign.
DELSIE
A very important truth Phil. thanks for the reminder!
I actually began my own initiative to support people. it really pays in different abundant ways.
Thank you so much Phil for reminding us this challenge which God as made to us in Malachi. 3.10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this, ” says Yahweh of Armies,” if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.
He is 100% right, it doesnt make sense in the natural,l but Heaven overrules. 12 Years ago I was unemployed, I went Bankrupt twice if thats even possible, my Truck was repossesed, surrendered my home to the bank and was forced to rent and couldnt pay the landlord, there was no end. My life didnt work and that was just the symptom, I had bigger turmoil in my heart and mind and just being broke was only one way it would become evident. I was angry, violent, foul, etc. I would also add I was aconvicted felon, and there was a full-blown recession when this all started and I have no degree. In the natural, it wasnt looking good for me.
I asked God one day when it hit critical mass, to help me live right and live for him, to forgive me of my sins. I also started tithing in that season of my life because I was going to to this God thing all the way, not just on the parts I liked and skip over the hard parts. I still tithe to this day and know it’s been all the difference. God gave me back everything I lost, I now support a family with 4 drivers and we can pay for all 4 cars no problem, me and my wife made around $200K this year. I still work very hard but God made me smarter than my peers in my profession, opened doors no man could have opened, promoted me 3 times, taught me to work and made things last, steered me out of disasters and taught me how to be responsible so this money would not destroy me. Jesus spoke to us about money more than just about any other issue that could make or break someones life and the hold it can have on our heart. When we master it, he can trust us with more the Bible says. Giving was the gasoline to the match stick.
Thank you for sharing the importance of giving back. God bless u.
great message and definantly touches the heart. Not what I expected. God is using you to challenge my giving. Amen. Thank you.
We are blessed to be a blessing!!!!
Thank you
Loved it. Here are additional verses of scripture supporting your message.
20 I say unto you, my brethren, that if you should render all the thanks and praise which your whole soul has power to possess, to that God who has created you, and has kept and preserved you, and has caused that ye should rejoice, and has granted that ye should live in peace one with another—
21 I say unto you that if ye should serve him who has created you from the beginning, and is preserving you from day to day, by lending you breath, that ye may live and move and do according to your own will, and even supporting you from one moment to another—I say, if ye should serve him with all your whole souls yet ye would be unprofitable servants.
22 And behold, all that he requires of you is to keep his commandments; and he has promised you that if ye would keep his commandments ye should prosper in the land; and he never doth vary from that which he hath said; therefore, if ye do keep his commandments he doth bless you and prosper you.
23 And now, in the first place, he hath created you, and granted unto you your lives, for which ye are indebted unto him.
24 And secondly, he doth require that ye should do as he hath commanded you; for which if ye do, he doth immediately bless you; and therefore he hath paid you. And ye are still indebted unto him, and are, and will be, forever and ever; therefore, of what have ye to boast?
25 And now I ask, can ye say aught of yourselves? I answer you, Nay. Ye cannot say that ye are even as much as the dust of the earth; yet ye were created of the dust of the earth; but behold, it belongeth to him who created you
16 And also, ye yourselves will succor those that stand in need of your succor; ye will administer of your substance unto him that standeth in need; and ye will not suffer that the beggar putteth up his petition to you in vain, and turn him out to perish.
17 Perhaps thou shalt say: The man has brought upon himself his misery; therefore I will stay my hand, and will not give unto him of my food, nor impart unto him of my substance that he may not suffer, for his punishments are just—
18 But I say unto you, O man, whosoever doeth this the same hath great cause to repent; and except he repenteth of that which he hath done he perisheth forever, and hath no interest in the kingdom of God.
19 For behold, are we not all beggars? Do we not all depend upon the same Being, even God, for all the substance which we have, for both food and raiment, and for gold, and for silver, and for all the riches which we have of every kind?
20 And behold, even at this time, ye have been calling on his name, and begging for a remission of your sins. And has he suffered that ye have begged in vain? Nay; he has poured out his Spirit upon you, and has caused that your hearts should be filled with joy, and has caused that your mouths should be stopped that ye could not find utterance, so exceedingly great was your joy.
21 And now, if God, who has created you, on whom you are dependent for your lives and for all that ye have and are, doth grant unto you whatsoever ye ask that is right, in faith, believing that ye shall receive, O then, how ye ought to impart of the substance that ye have one to another.
22 And if ye judge the man who putteth up his petition to you for your substance that he perish not, and condemn him, how much more just will be your condemnation for withholding your substance, which doth not belong to you but to God, to whom also your life belongeth; and yet ye put up no petition, nor repent of the thing which thou hast done.
23 I say unto you, wo be unto that man, for his substance shall perish with him; and now, I say these things unto those who are rich as pertaining to the things of this world.
24 And again, I say unto the poor, ye who have not and yet have sufficient, that ye remain from day to day; I mean all you who deny the beggar, because ye have not; I would that ye say in your hearts that: I give not because I have not, but if I had I would give.
25 And now, if ye say this in your hearts ye remain guiltless, otherwise ye are condemned; and your condemnation is just for ye covet that which ye have not received.
26 And now, for the sake of these things which I have spoken unto you—that is, for the sake of retaining a remission of your sins from day to day, that ye may walk guiltless before God—I would that ye should impart of your substance to the poor, every man according to that which he hath, such as feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and administering to their relief, both spiritually and temporally, according to their wants.
27 And see that all these things are done in wisdom and order; for it is not requisite that a man should run faster than he has strength. And again, it is expedient that he should be diligent, that thereby he might win the prize; therefore, all things must be done in order.
I love this message! So glad you shared your heart!
Phil, Great video! I am not one of those Crazy rich like you may think all your readers are, but I will agree on this and plan to return to tithing at least 10%.
Phil, Phil, Phil !!!!! You’ve got me. I’ve been on the sidelines for more than 2 yrs watching your videos. I’ve been to RE bootcamp, Online Trading bootcamp looking for a mentor and was still undecided which path to take in my life. Today once I saw the title of your email I readily knew the answer to it.
Professionally christians usually hide who we are, forgetting that the Bible says “It is Him ( The Lord) who gives us strength to get wealth”.
I thank the Holy Spirit for revealing me today who my mentor should be.
The rich people out there understand the principle without knowing its source. But we in the church complain about not being blessed. As my pastor always say “the Lord pours his rain on the wicked and on the just”. It’s up to us to follow the principle and reap the rewards found in Luke 6:38.
This is your best video. Thank you so much for sharing!
Great video, Phil and a great topic.
I was mentored to tithe early in my life when I didn’t make that much money. Now it’s automatic no matter how much I make. However it’s only been later in my life that I’ve begun to see the other impacts that giving back can provide. So many worthy causes are limited by funding shortfalls. Let’s make them successful!
Phil, thank you for expressing your Christian values. It’s so much easier to just not mention the name of Jesus, but you have, even if it offends some of your audience. Stay faithful and keep up the great work!
Thank You for sharing this message!
Great Video! God loves a cheerful giver! No Cosmic vending machines!
Great teaching very inspiring to change our mindset thanks
Steve
Correction: “so why you don’t considering contributing to World Vision”
U r 100% right, Soto rise you don’t contribute to :
World Vision, I began in 1974 sponsoring 1 child, have a few now, they have the best return of $, around 87% goes directly to child, look it up and keep the good work and thank you for serving our Lord
I enjoyed your sharing. My son is homeless in Texas and due to state surtaxes he can not renew his drivers license Do you know of an organization in Texas like Serve Foundation in Orlando or He go up event?
My favorite video so far. Excellent, true advice!
Thank you!
At CROSS (see link below) they literally said the same thing Phil is saying here. Our wealth development is intended for the advancement of God’s Kingdom so that people can experience the true “wealth of nations” Jesus Christ (Isa 60:5). #ServantMissionaries #GreatCommissionMinistry
https://crossforthenations.org/
Hi Phil,
Great video… makes a lot of sense!
Fred
Best video of yours to date. Awesome message. Great principle to live by.
Returning vs giving. Something to remember.
Thanks for the video. You are following the example set in the bible for all of us. Good job.
Right on Brother! I see why you have been Blessed.
Thank you so much! It’s so important, and vital to get our priorities in God’s order: 1. Serving the Lord and serving others with time and money; 2. Live below your means; 3. Get Out Of Debt; 4. everything else. Now that I know you are the real deal, no fakery going on, I can listen to your advice with confidence. I would like to know how you set up Orlando Serves as I would like to see something similar in my community. It is needed. Thank you again, you are truly appreciated.
Awesome. It all comes down to obedience and faith. Thanks for this video!
AMEN, AMEN, AMEN
The Truth!
I was a fan before, but now I’m a super fan. 🙂 It makes me trust you all the more to know you serve the Lord. Thank you!
Wow Phill that is great news I love your videos but this one is amazing , thanks for sharing and may God bless you always.
Thank you for this message 🙂
Exceptional thanks
Phil,
I don’t always agree with what you say and I do not agree with the debt part but as far as the giving or tithing you are right on. The rest will fall into place when we do this first. If you do not give your tithe first God can not bless the rest. God Bless you and your business.
Michael
Love it
Thank you, Phil for confirming this for me. I am a Christian, I know about tithing but my husband and I have been struggling with the idea of of giving 10% solely to our church. Reason is bc we have some family members that are less fortunate than us and we help them out financially every month. In your opinion, does that count as tithing if we give 5% to church and spread out the other 5% between other people?
That’s a great question for the Lord
Great video. Very encouraging.
love this video. RIGHT ON