love offerings
Gifts for clergy
Love offerings are voluntary monetary gifts given to religious leaders, ministers, or churches, distinct from regular tithes or dues.
The term frames the donation as an expression of appreciation or spiritual devotion rather than obligation: The congregation took up a love offering for the visiting pastor.
Sometimes used euphemistically to obscure what is essentially payment for services.
- almsGifts to the destitute
- giftsItems freely given
- first fruitsEarliest produce of harvest
- titheTenth for clergy
- benevolenceDisposition toward doing good
donation · building fund · service · charity · church · mutual aid · giving back · present · tokens · contribution · temple · fundraising · intention · philanthropy · humanitarian aid · endowment · oblation · volunteerism
love offeringscollections
Gathered groups of items
extractions · exactions · confiscations · seizures · indulgences
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