Summary: Tithing settlement is, no doubt, a busy time of year for not only the bishop but for the bishopric. Thousands of wards and branches around the world will all make it happen starting October 15 and so it would be helpful to share notes and find the best approach to tithing settlement.<br> <br> In this episode, bishops or bishopric members share how their ward approaches tithing settlement. They each share some great ideas that can improve you efficiency to tithing settlement this year.<br> <br> We will build on this episode and add additional tithing settlement ideas. If you would like to share your approach in order to help other wards better execute tithing settlement, please <a href="https://leadingsaints.org/contact/">contact us</a> and we will give you further details.<br> <br> One new option was shared by listener and application/web developer Jason Graves, who made some updates to the tear-off sheet and published it for use via Google Sheets. It's easy to adjust. You just have to save your own copy in your own Google account, then enter the start date/time and the end date/time and select how long you want each appointment to last. Then it will build out the form for you. See the link below.<br> Links:<br> <br> * <a href="https://leadingsaints.org/how-i-lead-being-a-bishop-of-mercy-love-an-interview-with-bishop-brandon-leavitt/">How I Lead: Brandon Leavitt</a><br> * <a href="https://leadingsaints.org/leading-as-bishop-on-a-1-2-1-level-how-i-lead-mark-sieverkropp/">How I Lead: Mark Sieverkropp</a><br> * <a href="https://leadingsaints.org/how-i-lead-nathan-waldron-elders-quorum-president/">How I Lead: Nathan Waldron</a><br> * <a href="https://leadingsaints.org/being-bishop-in-florence-italy-how-i-lead-marco-ferrini/">How I Lead: Marco Ferrini</a><br> * <a href="https://leadingsaints.org/how-i-lead-as-young-men-president-an-interview-with-aaron-chesley/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">How I Lead: Aaron Chesley</a><br> * <a href="https://mormonlifehacker.com/tithing-settlement-tear-off-schedule/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tithing Settlement Tear-Off Schedule</a><br> * <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yn23w7cqWD98Ncfhmb1M9kRIJhOYgeyNA_oMlKEHjsk/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Adjustable Version of Tithing Settlement Tear-Off Schedule</a><br> * <a href="https://mormonlifehacker.com/tithing-settlement-in-2-days-share-this-gift-with-your-bishopric/">Tithing Settlement in 2 Days</a><br> <br> Quotes about Tithing<br> A Prerequisite to Higher Ordinances<br> Tithing is one of the many standards that allows us to rreceive saving ordinances.<br> <br> Brigham Young wrote in an epistle of the Quorum of the Twelve: “Enter steadily and regularly upon a strict observance of the law of tithing … then come up to the House of the Lord, and be taught in his ways, and walk in his paths.” (History of the Church, 7:282.)<br> <br> Elder Taylor then taught: “It is our duty to pay our tithing, one-tenth of all we possess, and then one-tenth of our increase, and a man who has not paid his tithing is unfit to be baptized for his dead. … It is our duty to pay our tithing. If a man has not faith enough to attend to these little things, he has not faith enough to save himself and his friends.” (History of the Church, 7:292–93; italics added.)<br> The Lord's Revenue System<br> Tithing is the Lord’s revenue system, and He requires it of the people, not because He is lacking in gold or silver, but because [we] need to pay it. …<br> <br> "The prime … purpose behind the establishment of the law of the tithe is the development of the soul of the tithe-payer, rather than the providing of revenue. The latter is an all-important purpose, for so far as money is needed for the carrying on of the work of the Church the Lord requires money that is sanctified by the faith of the giver; but b...
