Pastors Who Blackmail Church Members into Giving Tithes and Offerings Defy Joyful Giving and Aren’t Fit for Office

It’s really one thing for a pastor to teach about giving. Some churches still believe in tithing one’s income while others don’t. There’s the teaching of joyful giving in the New Testament (2 Corinthians 9:7). If one goes with the Old Testament law, tithing has been more than just a tenth of one’s income. It was giving a tenth that also included one’s livestock and crops. In the New Testament, we hardly consider a church member who gives 10% of his inventory to the church a tithe. Instead, it was treated as a donation. It seems that giving 10% has become the basic standard when one starts giving to God. However, it can be easily abused such as misquoting Malachi 3:10-11 in order to make a quick buck.

To Tithe or Not to Tithe Under the New Testament?

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I remembered that some fundamentalist Baptists teach the necessary of the tithe or giving of a tenth of your income. A closer look at the Old Testament tithe would tell us that the tithe is more than just a tenth of one’s income. The Old Testament tithe would require giving a tenth of everything you own, not just from the gross or net income. Today’s tithe has been limited only to the income but not anything else given.