October 1

Malachi 1-4 The last numbers I saw on the average percentage most Americans give to their church was around 2% of their income. The number has been in decline for several years. I don't know if there is any correlation, but as contributions go down it appears that poverty increases. Perhaps there's a clue in today's reading, Malachi 3:10: Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.