If True Father is attended below the standard of church members, you should be truly ashamed of yourself. Do you understand? In the position of a church member who should have Father's heart for the unification of the North and the South and accompany Heaven for the fulfillment of His Will, if your monthly living standard is higher than that of average church members, you should lower your living standard. Those who are living better than others should come down, and those whose living standard is lower than the average of other members should overcome their financial difficulties by making extra effort. By so doing, all of you should gradually raise your living standard until you can defeat the people of the nation with the highest living standard. Till then, we should be all united.

From now on, if you have a family, you should have a room for the True Parents, and if you have farming land, you should keep a piece of land for them. In doing so, whenever you farm you should use seeds that are harvested from Father's land.

Amongst Israelites, a tribe called Levi lived on tithes collected from the people. As the Unification Church members, in leading a life of attendance for God and True Parents tithing is absolutely essential. If you consider all money as your own, Satan will invade. The reason is that the number 9 has been governed by Satan so far. under his dominion, if the number 9 is returned and connected to God on the earth where Satan is the master, He can restore the number 10 through which God can claim His dominion over everything, including the number 9, from the realm of Satan. That is why the term "tithe 10%" came into being. Do you think that it came randomly? (150-299)

When looking into tithing in Christianity, we come to realize something fearful about tithing. Some Biblical verses support the idea of tithing, teaching people to offer one out of ten to God. Then some skeptics ask: "Is God visible? What is a tithe for?" However, the meaning is that we can go as far as ten by paying one. For example, suppose that you killed cows and pigs and prepared all kinds of things to celebrate your parents' birthday or a special 60th birthday, or even the King's birthday. Your parents or king accept the offering, but actually eat only a small portion of it. Still, a condition equal to their having eaten all of it is has been established through your offering.

Likewise, by offering a tithe from your material possessions, you can establish a condition equal to having offered all that you have. Even if you do not offer the whole, offering a portion with all of your heart and mind is valuable in that sense. By offering one-tenth, the rest can be also considered to be holy. The person who tithes will never perish. As days go by, his storage room will be filled with more material blessings. (31-239)