Comments on: Pay Your Tithing Directly

By: Allison

Allison — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:28:38 +0000

I am trying to set this up on my online bill-pay and I was wondering what I should write in the memo line. Also, will they just see my name and address and match it up with my membership number? If not, how will they keep up with it for the purpose of sending me a receipt? It seems like they’d need some other info from me.

By: anon

anon — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:19:24 +0000

I just called the general COB number. They forwarded me to someone who emailed me my statement within 20 minutes. Very cool.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:12:20 +0000

anon, There are some phone numbers here where you should be able to get your questions answered.

By: anon

anon — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:48:55 +0000

And at tax time?

By: Rusty

Rusty — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:06:27 +0000

anon,
If I remember correctly I don’t think you get a statement. Or at least my statement from the ward just has my fast offerings on it. And I tell my bishop that I’ve paid a full tithe. He believes me.

By: anon

anon — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:26:51 +0000

So tithing settlement time is upon us, and our ward clerk has no records of my tithing payments because I paid them directly. Who the heck do I contact at the COB to get my tithing statement for the year?

By: Tatiana

Tatiana — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:43:17 +0000

I think when Christ told the rich young ruler to give away all he had to the poor, and come follow him, he was telling the truth too. I think if we did that, we’d be given everything, that every instant of life would become like a precious jewel to us, and that we would then own the whole universe, which is beyond price. I think the “magical tithing” principle still holds true for giving everything we have away to the poor, and following him. We would become monsterously wealthy that way.

So I wonder why I don’t?

By: Tatiana

Tatiana — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 14:34:31 +0000

I think it’s the same experience whether it’s online or not. I do it because God wants me to, and I never seem not to have enough. When I started tithing, I didn’t think the “magical” stories about tithing were true, or should be true. In fact, I thought they were downright dishonest. If I am doing it for me, then what’s the point?

But it’s paradoxical, like keeping all the commandments! When you do things for others, or to be a good citizen of the kingdom, or just to be obedient, it always ends up coming back and paying you manyfold. So now matter how hard you try to be unselfish and noble and good and all that, you still end up making out like the rich kid at Christmas. It’s really not fair!

By: makakona

makakona — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 01:35:28 +0000

i’m shocked, SHOCKED, i say, that i didn’t know this. i’ve always wished that i could pay tithing online because it would be so much easier. i don’t think it diminshes at all from the experience and there was a time that i would have been more caught up on paying my tithing if i could have clicked the mouse in the wee hours instead of having timely organizational skills to actually hand over or send in a check.

By: Rusty

Rusty — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:54:43 +0000

CJ,
It’s an interesting question. But in this digital society money is primarily psychological anyway, right? I mean, when I see online that I’ve only got $42 left in my bank account I still feel like crap, regardless of the fact that it’s only a number on a screen and not cash (or chicken) in hand. So when I see that I’m pushing buttons that subtract my bank account and I don’t have any nice furniture/books/clothes/cars/etc. to account for that subtraction, it’s the same psychology as if I were to give away a chicken and not get anything in return. But it is an interesting question.