Tithing…Is it a command? - Page 24

Scott Hutchinson · #1 05-11-2009, 01:10 PM

This does provoke thought.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...48281294&hl=en

Scott Hutchinson · #2 05-11-2009, 01:27 PM

For consideration.
http://www.agape.com/tithe.htm#LAW%2...IRST%20MENTION

Nitehawk013 · #3 09-22-2009, 01:22 PM

Glad I'm not alone in understanding that the Tithe is not even remotely commanded of the NT church.

I still pay mine and support my church in every way possible because it is MY CHURCH. I am responsible to pay for the house I worship in. If I want a full time Pastor, then I feel it is my duty to do my best to support him. Do I think for a second someone will go to hell for not tithing? Not on your life! Do I think they may find themselves hurting financially if they refuse to support their chrch? Yes I do. Reap what you sow.

Nitehawk013 · #4 10-02-2009, 06:34 AM

The treasurer is a liar an d should re-read how the tithe was distributed in the OT tithing model. Oh wait...Pastors aren't really interested in the OT tithing model other than to use it to manipulate saints into paying a tithe.

shag · #5 10-02-2009, 06:42 AM

not so much a liar, as but just very deceived, as are many- imo

pastorrick1959 · #6 10-02-2009, 07:13 AM

GLAD YALL DONT COME TO MY CHURCH LOL. sure gonna be hard to ever have a church witrh no support aint it?it is scriptural to pay tithes,,and it works very well for me . at one point in my life i didnt pay 10%my thinking was the disciples paid as they were blessed so when i made good i pd good and when i didnt do well being self employed , i gave little to nothing ..things went horibly wrong in about a month,in every aspect of my life .. i said heck i gonna pay 10% and se what happens in 2 weeks everything i mean everything turned around and i had one of the best paying weeks i ever had in my life ,just unlucky i dont think so //. blessed or cursed ,, 10% works i am living proof.

shag · #7 10-02-2009, 07:16 AM

no support???
Please, do explain.

My friend just filed bankruptsy and he never stopped paying tithes yet.....
And there are many that have had bad things happen in their life(asside from financial), and never stopped paying tithes. Your point?

Digging4Truth · #8 10-02-2009, 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by shag

no support???
Please, do explain.

My friend just filed bankruptsy and he never stopped paying tithes yet.....
And there are many that have had bad things happen in their life(aside from financial), and never stopped paying tithes. Your point?

Nobody gets called to the front to give their testimony in these situations because it doesn't forward the doctrine.

Nitehawk013 · #9 10-02-2009, 07:26 AM

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Originally Posted by pastorrick1959

GLAD YALL DONT COME TO MY CHURCH LOL. sure gonna be hard to ever have a church witrh no support aint it?it is scriptural to pay tithes,,and it works very well for me . at one point in my life i didnt pay 10%my thinking was the disciples paid as they were blessed so when i made good i pd good and when i didnt do well being self employed , i gave little to nothing ..things went horibly wrong in about a month,in every aspect of my life .. i said heck i gonna pay 10% and se what happens in 2 weeks everything i mean everything turned around and i had one of the best paying weeks i ever had in my life ,just unlucky i dont think so //. blessed or cursed ,, 10% works i am living proof.

You are confusing being blessed for tithing with something completely different: reaping what you sow.

Of course when you give you will be blessed. You reap what you sow. That doesn't however justify preaching tithing when it was not preached in the NT church and wa snot actually adopted as doctrine for a fe whundred years after the original churches.

Furtehr, you didn't address my point. If you are so hardcore for tithing, why not distribute it as the OT model shows? Does the tithe at your church go to the rest of the priesthood as well and then you get a tenth of what they recieved? Do you even let other ministers get a crumb of the tithes? Or are they just "blessed to be used" in your church?

jfrog · #10 10-02-2009, 08:46 AM

This we all believe, that God will always make a way. Should not the pastor be our example first? Why then do they all fear that without tithes their church will fail? It seems to me that this spirit is what prevails in all the arguments for tithes; that without tithes the churches will fail, the bills will not be paid. It is this spirit to me that seems to run so contrary to faith, this spirit of doubt and fear. For this reason, I find tithing to be against faith. Let us trust in God. If that is truly the motto you preach, search yourself and I think you'll be surprised to find fear and doubt at the heart of your preaching tithes.