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NASB | Acts 13:39 and through Him everyone who believes is freed from all things, from which you could not be freed through the Law of Moses. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 13:39 and through Him everyone who believes [who acknowledges Jesus as Lord and Savior and follows Him] is justified and declared free of guilt from all things, from which you could not be justified and freed of guilt through the Law of Moses. |
Subject: tithing |
Bible Note: 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 |