From: Alicia Negaard
Research Project at CPRS
Our class, Experimenting on God's Word is doing a project to quantify the financial effects of paying tithing. "Honor the Lord with thy substance, and with the first fruits of all thine increase; so shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine." Proverbs 3:9, 10.
We have heard plenty of testimonies of blessings from paying tithing. We would like to see if we can quantify those blessings.
We need 20 volunteers who are willing to track their finances for a month and do a little math. We do NOT want to know ANY of your financial information. We will need you to record the total balance of cash in your checking account and savings accounts on Feb 1. Then you will record the total of your checking and savings accounts on March 1. Here is the math. Divide the March 1 number by the Feb 1 number and report to us that number.
If you decide to do this, you will be randomly assigned to the tithing or non-tithing group. You are certainly allowed to pay February tithing due in March, after you have gotten your March 1 figure. We do not want anyone to NOT pay tithing just suspend it for a month for this experiment.
Is this a perfect research design--no. We are depending on your honesty in self-reporting and actually paying your tithing. (BTW-we are NOT specifying who you pay tithing to, just continue as you have been doing).We are also depending on you to do the math to give us the percentage change. Would it be better if this experiment lasted longer, yes. However this is a class and we have time constraints for this.
We have not been able to find any actual attempt to research this and are eager to give it a try.
"But behold, if ye will awake and arouse your faculties, even to an experiment upon my words, and exercise a particle of faith..." Alma 16:151
If you would like to participate contact Alicia Negaard at:
anegaard@cprseagles.com
Thank you so much,
Experimenting on God's Word - Class
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