Here's an interesting situation I heard through several friends, to which I'll share with you to solicit your thoughts...

An associate pastor has been serving in a church for less than a year. The finance committee discovered that he wasn't tithing. So they brought it up to the senior pastor. The senior pastor confronted the associate pastor about it, and discovered that the associate pastor does not believe in tithing but is willing to start tithing for the sake of appeasing the church. The elders are convening to discuss terminating their associate pastor.

What are your thoughts? Is a pastor's/elder's lack of tithing grounds for termination? While he is willing to start tithing for the sake of appeasing church expectations, he's not convicted by Scripture about it.

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Will Shin
Rockville, MD