{"id":6409,"date":"2008-05-30T22:22:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T22:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/few_churchgoers_tithe_study_says\/"},"modified":"2008-05-30T22:22:01","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T22:22:01","slug":"few_churchgoers_tithe_study_says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6409","title":{"rendered":"Few Churchgoers Tithe, Study Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Pateo of Gardendale, Ala., says she and her husband, Robert, try to give 5 percent of their income to their church and 5 percent to Christian charities, but it&#8217;s difficult with three children in college.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have strong feelings that God expects first fruits,&#8221; Pateo said. &#8220;Sometimes we fall short. It&#8217;s something we are all called to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A recent poll by pollster George Barna shows that only 5 percent of Americans say they tithe, or give at least 10 percent of their income to religious congregations and charitable groups.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/article_detail.cfm?AID=10547\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linda Pateo of Gardendale, Ala., says she and her husband, Robert, try to give 5 percent of their income to their church and 5 percent to Christian charities, but it&#8217;s difficult with three children in college. &#8220;I have strong feelings<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6409\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,184,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-parish-ministry","category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}