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::''Related articles'': '''[[Are Christians required to tithe?]]''' and '''[[Church Governance in the Message|Church governance]]'''

'''''Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.'''''  (Lord Acton)

William Branham created a very dangerous situation for the local church when he provided that 100% of the tithes was to go to the pastor.  In most message churches this means that the pastor has complete control of the tithes and there is no financial accountability as to how the pastor spends the money.  Unfortunately, this almost guarantees that financial abuse will take place and, in larger message churches (based on our experience), financial abuse is quite common.