If we'd just tithe ...

Look at these stats which I just came across in the Winter 2005 issue of Leadership Journal:

Total funds needed worldwide for unmet basic human needs—food, clean water, shelter, immunizations: $80 billion

Total if all U.S. church member increased giving to 10% of their income: $86 billion

I’m assuming that the $86 billion is in excess of the monies already gathered, meaning that we could take care of every human need on the planet just with monies raised by church-going Christians in the U.S.

If those numbers aren’t compelling, go to the website that Leadership Journal got the info from, emptytomb.org. It shows a count of the number of children around the world who have already died in 2005. The number was at 1,596,409 when I checked it at posting time.

Lord have mercy.