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Is voluntary giving a new theological doctrine? Is opposition to the required 10% minimum isolated to this website's voice? No... See the article published on The Conservative Voice. More and more Christians are fed up with the church being run as a business and fabricating doctrines to maximize it's budget. This website has a fairly large national viewership.
OPPOSITION TO CHRISTIAN TITHING GROWS
Russell Earl Kelly is the author of 'Should the Church Teach Tithing?', an expansion of his PH. D. thesis. Every day he receives e-mails, letters and calls from around the world thanking him for his free in-depth materials.There is mounting opposition to the doctrine of tithing. The opposition is not against supporting churches, but rather against the teaching that all church members (including the poorest) must begin their giving at 10% of their gross income. Even though money was already a necessity, Kelly insists that biblical tithing was always only food from farmers and herdsmen in Israel under the Old Covenant. It was never commanded as an eternal moral principle of the New Covenant to the Church. He says that churches which teach mandatory tithing ignore the context and take money from the disadvantaged which they need for medicine and basic necessities. Salvation is not “By Grace Plus 10%.” “This is a growing scandal,” Kelly says, “and it is being treated like a taboo subject. The most bold preachers suddenly run or get angry when asked to discuss tithing. Sincere members are often accused of being trouble-makers. We simply request a close re-examination of God’s Word concerning tithing.” “While many members should give more, it is wrong to threaten good loving (but poor and sick) church members with a curse from God if they cannot give the first 10% to the church. These often either leave church or keep attending while feeling unwelcome and incapable of being accepted by God. Today the very lowest income class pays the largest percentage to charity and most remain in poverty. Neither the lottery nor the tithe is a magic get-rich-quick answer to replace education, determination and hard work. Yet if Malachi 3:10 really worked for New Covenant Christians, then millions of poor tithing Christians would have escaped poverty and would have become the wealthiest group of people in the world instead of remaining the poorest. There is no evidence that the vast majority of poor “tithe-payers” are ever blessed financially merely because they tithe. Neither the Old Covenant blessings nor curses apply to Christians who were never under that covenant.” Check out another Christian Website. Canada's Christian Community Online In this website Van Robinson of Kentucky says, 'Tithing is a subject that impacts the lives of countless millions of Christians, and a subject woefully misunderstood in the context of the New Covenant under Jesus Christ, even among multitudes of pastors. I challenge pastors and Christians to review this vital subject, and prove all things, as did the Bereans of the book of Acts. In spite of the need for money, and regardless of voluntary giving, there is no reason to lead Christians to believe that they are blessed or cursed based upon their "tithing." Under the paradigm of the New Covenant, the life of a Christian revolves around Jesus Christ, and not around "tithing." ' Another website that is a good window concerning the present tithing debate in Christian circles is http://www.tithingdebate.com/ This website is put out by Cultwatch.com In this website there are multiple free books and a short comical court scenario concerning The Trial of Pastor Jones. This short story destroys most of the tithe preacher's arguments. |