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ichbindervater

Tithing

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Hiya all,

I kinda have a question about tithing. It’s something that I would like to start doing, but I am just unsure of really the how. It seems like tithes should mostly go to your church, but I’m currently going to a church that I don’t feel that much connected to, and in addition to that, they have so much money. Like, multimillion dollars. I looked it up and it seems that the consensus is that most of what I decide to set aside for tithes should go to my church, but I just feel like that’s a bit off? Considering the church I currently go to. I’d love to give to a Christian charity or a missionary group.

I guess I’m moreso asking, is that acceptable to God? Or does the Bible instruct us to mainly give to the church?

Posted Sep 25, 2023, 12:21 AM UTC

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Expensive-Start3654•

The Word says "storehouse", not church, however, giving to the church is important as they have expenses. If you are not being fed (spiritually) at that church, go where you are feed.

Malachi 3:10-12 "Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in my house, and thus put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts; see if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you an overflowing blessing.

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songbookz•

Tithing is not a New Testament thing.

  1. Tithing was not allowed to be done in money, although the Temple Tax was paid in money
  2. The tithe was only of agricultural products in the Promised Land, farmers outside of Israel did not have to tithe
  3. The tithe was only of the increase in agricultural products. If a person had 100 cows at the beginning of the period and 110 cows at the end of the period, one paid 1 cow. If one lived to far from Jerusalem, one sold ones tithe and bought a new one when you got there
  4. There were several tithes, collected 3 years apart
  5. The priest kept a portion of the tithe, cooked the rest and returned to the family for them to eat and share with strangers
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