Tithing…Is it a command?

[Roxanne Murphy]

Originally Posted by FlamingZword

You need to stop robbing God.

you twist the scriptures to promote a non-giving attitude.
God gave the very best for you and you are so miserly that you simply refuse to give him even a 10% back of the blessings that he has given you.

Everything that you have is because God gave it to you, go ahead and rob God and excuse yourself by twisting the scriptures.

It is because of attitudes like yours that I have seen poor pastors barely able to feed their families, they struggle and even have to get a job, and then when they neglect their ministerial duties because they have to work, then it is the people like you who attack him for not always being present to attend to the church members.

I have seen to many poor preachers who have been kind to their members who do not pay tithes, but he catches heck from those members if he is not at their beck and call.

Paul say not to muzzle the ox that threated out the corn, but you have gone beyond muzzling that ox, but have actually have tied down his feet and have poked him and demanded that he get up and run.

how hypocritical of you, and your anti-tithe crowd fellows.

Well, since we have resorted to anecdotal diatribes to try to hide the glaring lack of scriptural support for tithing under the New Covenant, I have a lot that I can tell. Here are just a few:

The precious widowed saint in the church, living on a fixed income, faithfully tithes, lives very simply, is involved in everything she can be to help support the church: she has the 'privilege' of attending district Family Camp in her late seventies only because she stays in a dorm room and works hard in the kitchen to pay her way, while the pastor and family of the church she supports stays in the nicest accommodations and they are served the best food before anybody else is served.

In another church, the assistant pastor (also the pastor's son-in-law) does not see a good reason to temporarily house a family from the church that has fallen on hard times due to the downturns of the economy; rather, the perfectly functional and vacant house on the church property is kept empty because the assistant pastor's recently widowed mother (who is living across the country near her other preacher son) 'might come back' and he would have her live in that vacant house (former parsonage but the 'poor pastor' moved into a much nicer home years ago). That family with children had to live in their car.