{"id":478,"date":"2012-02-09T11:16:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T19:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=478"},"modified":"2012-02-09T11:16:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T19:16:49","slug":"high-percentage-tithing-accelerators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/09\/high-percentage-tithing-accelerators\/","title":{"rendered":"High-Percentage Tithing &#8220;Accelerators&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an article about some <a href=\"http:\/\/presbyterian.typepad.com\/beyondordinary\/2012\/02\/the-accelerators-in-high-percentage-tithing-presbyterian-churches.html\">things that are found in Presbyterian churches with a higher-than-average proportion of people who contribute a high percentage of their income to the church<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Did you get that? These are factors that, when you find them in a church, give you grounds to predict that the church will have a more high-giving contributors than average churches. The article calls these factors &#8220;accelerators&#8221; but that suggests causation, as if these factors somehow stepped on the tithing gas pedal. From my reading, a better term would be &#8220;predictor.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, these &#8220;accelerators&#8221; are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More conservative worshipers.<\/li>\n<li>More people who attend at least weekly.<\/li>\n<li>More (i.e., a higher-than-usual proportion of) men.<\/li>\n<li>Larger congregations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to speculate what the connections are (besides statistical anomaly) between these factors and higher giving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an article about some things that are found in Presbyterian churches with a higher-than-average proportion of people who contribute a high percentage of their income to the church. (Did you get that? These are factors that, when you find them in a church, give you grounds to predict that the church will have a &hellip; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/09\/high-percentage-tithing-accelerators\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[414,40,672,56,413],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-giving","tag-pcusa","tag-presbyterian","tag-stewardship","tag-tithing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}