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1 | tithing | Acts 13:39 | jlpangilinan | 66367 | ||
Charis, Greetings from the Philippines, If you read the thread, and even before I am not really against giving, but if someone require me of some amount such as ten twenty percent is not really for the christian. Everyone is free to give to the church, whether it is ten twenty or even the whole of your salary it is acceptable to God, but in any purposes of the heart, and not as a requirements. Even in the time of patriach tithes is not a requirements, abraham give tithes but no one require him to gave but he gave. Tithe really becomes a requirements under the law of moses, everyone knows that. It was an important part of thier religion in order to support levites. But in the time of Christ, it is not a requirements, the teaching goes in a way of love offering (the example of widow). To prove that Christ did not require anyone to tithes is there is no single occassion in the new testament that both Christ and apostle never received and give tithes, it is the fact. I was wondering, and continue wondering that there are people again teach the tithes as a requirements, they cannot accept the teaching of love offering but tithes as a requirements. My wonder really is if Christ not required us to tithe, and the desciples never observed the tithes, why we should require our members to tithe? are more authorize than them? Charis, I hope you read the magazine Heaven can't wait. God bless, and Banzai! Johnny |
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2 | tithing | Acts 13:39 | charis | 66370 | ||
Dear Johnny, Greetings in Jesus' name! Friend, I did read the thread very carefully. The only person in this thread that equates tithing with 'requirement' or 'absolute amount' is you. Please tell me, in your church, are even the very poor encouraged to give 'love offerings' to God? Is it taught that even a small portion (say, 10 percent, which is less than most governments require of their citizens) of a small salary is a door to many blessings? Are all the saints in your fellowship, both poor and rich, exhorted to receive the following Scripture?: "Now this I say, he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver." 2 Corinthians 9:6,7 NASB If the answer to these three questions is 'Yes,' then you are also teaching the principle of the tithe, even if you do not call it by that name. If, however, your church preaches that the poor are exempt, and the rich are to support the church, then you rob the poor of their blessing, and exault the rich, thereby stealing their blessing, too. Giving must not be tied to circumstance! Brother, the term 'tithe' is a 'rule of thumb' or 'basic suggestion,' not an exact amount. It just so happens that this is about the minimal amount that any Christian could give, but enough that those who have a hard time parting with their cash would be tempted to claim as 'too much.' As to those who can afford to give more, they are required by God to ask how much He wants. These 'fortunate' souls must never 'announce' their giving record, and the pastor should never reveal these things to the congregation. The rich are always tempted to be proud of their money. Truly, we should not 'require our members to tithe,' but encourage our members to give. If asked what that means, I always answer that 'entry-level' giving according to Bible precedent is 10 percent of your whole income, given from the heart without pressure from man. I have never heard of 'Heaven Can't Wait.' Please answer to me about your church's teaching of 'love offering.' In Christ Jesus, charis |
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3 | tithing | Acts 13:39 | jlpangilinan | 66493 | ||
Charis, In our church, we encourage our members to give love offering, any purposes of the heart, not ten percent, not twenty but in any purposes of the heart. Aside from that we discourage non-member to give love offering if they are our visitors. We put a something in the front that our visitors will see, "we are not accepted love offering from non-members" As a matter of fact we supported our church through love offering, our pastor did not received salary from the church, they have thier own job to support thier family. It is part of thier devotion not to be burdensome to a members what paul did.: 2Co 12:14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. We have hospital (inside that convention center I was mentioneds to a year ago)and home for the most unfortunate members of the church. We have members that enable to give, this are members that no job, or two old already to work or disable person, we keep them in the home for our unfortunate members. As the apostle did, we never taught tithes, as part of the income of the church, we support our television program through love offering. We have big overhead for those program, and for the amount that we cannot paid, it our head brother find the solutions how to pay for those. He was inspired by the life of paul not to be burdensome to the members because we consider him as our parents in faith. Philippines is one of a developing country, we have people here stay in the garbage area, but to let you know we have no members that die because they cannot eat, we keep them we supported them, every members of the church counted, and for those most unfortunate, we bring them and help them, we have place for them. We take good care of every member of the church. God bless, Johnny |
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