{"id":4285,"date":"2011-08-06T22:21:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T22:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=4285"},"modified":"2011-08-06T22:21:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T22:21:43","slug":"tithes-on-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/4285\/tithes-on-business\/","title":{"rendered":"tithes on business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Bro. John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">I have a question about tithes. A couple places I sell my writing to are kind\u00a0of marketplaces escrow services, which withhold a percentage of each of my\u00a0sales for their administration, marketing, etc. Usually, we tithe on what I\u00a0originally charged for the writing, instead of what I receive after the\u00a0middleman fees. Are we doing that right or are the fees business expenses\u00a0we shouldn&#8217;t tithe on?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Beverly<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000;\"> ===============<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Hi Beverly:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>God commanded His people to bring to His servants a tithe of their &#8220;increase&#8221;. In modern terms, that would mean &#8220;profit&#8221;. You should tithe only on the amount you earn <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">after<\/span> business expenses are deducted.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><em>Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bro. John, I have a question about tithes. A couple places I sell my writing to are kind\u00a0of marketplaces escrow services, which withhold a percentage of each of my\u00a0sales for their administration, marketing, etc. Usually, we tithe on what I\u00a0originally charged for the writing, instead of what I receive after the\u00a0middleman fees. Are we doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}