The Current Teaching Of The Watchtower Society:

Jehovah's Witnesses boast that they do not take a collection during any of their meetings or gatherings.

The Witnesses do not have to take a collection: the entire operation of the Society is an efficiently run business-like organization that depends heavily on sales of literature and donated labor. All of the magazines, books, etc. published by the Society are sold to individual Jehovah's Witnesses. Whether these items are sold or given away is up to the individual Society member. (The Society gives away just 19 Watchtower each month.) Virtually everything printed is sold to the individual Jehovah's Witness. All land for the Kingdom Halls is donated and construction time is donated by individual Witnesses. Everything they have is paid for by the Witnesses themselves. As for the printing costs: laborers at the printing factory in Brooklyn, New York receive $14.00 per month, plus room and board. As a consequence, printing costs are greatly reduced. They can thus afford to out-print much of the Christian world, and have free salesmen to deliver their material.

What the Bible Says about MONEY:

Giving by Abraham to Melchizedek	Hbr 7:1-2; Hbr 7:6; Hbr 7:9
Promised by Jacob	Gen 28:22
Belongs to Lord	Lev 27:30-33
Given to Levites	Num 18:21-24
Given by Levites to Priest	Num 18:26; Num 18:28
Taken to Temple	Deu 12:5-19
Promises regarding not to rob God	Mal 3:7-12

NOTE: Sales of merchandise has not been nor should ever be the principle means by which the church ministers to its people and its community. Tithing, [giving to the Lord a tenth of that which one receives in wages and income) which is one of the forms of worship revealed and demonstrated in the Bible, is the plan God is using to accomplish His objective, namely, reaching the world with the Gospel.