RECONSIDERING THE SCRIPTURAL BASIS & DEFINITION OF TITHING & OFFERINGS...by Bob Brunette ~HOW MANY TIMES IN THE EARTHLY MINISTRY OF MESSIAH JESUS, DID HE COLLECT A TITHE OR AN OFFERING...??? YOU ARE RIGHT NONE!!!... THE ONLY INCIDENTS THAT COME EVEN CLOSE WERE WITH THE COLLECTION OF THE LOAVES & FISHES... ONLY THEN TO GATHER THEM, ASK HIS FATHERS BLESSING UPON THEM... ONLY THEN TO HAVE THE OFFERING MULTIPLY... AND THEN TO COMPLETELY & FREELY GIVE AWAY (no stings attached)… THE WHOLE OFFERING TO THE POOR AND DISENFRANCHISED... ~JUDGING BY 80%-90% OF PRESENT DAY U.S. EVANGELICALISM... YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT EVERY TIME JESUS HAD EITHER PREACHED OR TAUGHT… THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN WITHOUT EXCEPTION AN ACCOMPANYING COLLECTING OF A TITHE OR AN OFFERING...!!! THE REAL JESUS DIDNT COME TO TAKE…(after all the richest Man that ever walked the earth was homeless without a place to even lay His head at night) BUT TO FREELY GIVE... TO INCLUDE HIS VERY LAST DROP OF BLOOD...!!! awildernessvoice/RethinkTithe1.html ~ ADDENDUM: PLEASE DONT MISUNDERSTAND OR CONFUSE THE ISSUE OF HOW IT IS THAT FOLLOWERS OF MESSIAH JESUS ARE CLEARLY AND FREQUENTLY INSTRUCTED PARTICULARLY IN THE NEW TESTAMENT TO SUPPORT THOSE FROM WHOM THEY RECEIVE SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT IN THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST... BUT RATHER LET US TAKE OUR GREATEST EXAMPLE OF HIM WHO IS THE PRIME EXAMPLE OF WHAT IT MEANS TO LIVE OUT BY FAITH IN GOD AND HIS WORD- IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH... THE MASTER HIMSELF... ~ Soon afterwards, He began going around from one city and village to another, proclaiming and preaching the kingdom of God. The twelve were with Him, 2 and also some women who had been healed of evil spirits and sicknesses: MARY WHO WAS CALLED MAGDALENE, FROM WHOM SEVEN DEMONS HAD GONE OUT, AND JOANNA THE WIFE OF CHUZA, HERODS STEWARD, AND SUSANNA, AND MANY OTHERS WHO WERE CONTRIBUTING TO THEIR SUPPORT OUT OF THEIR PRIVATE MEANS ! ~ Luke 8:1-3 ~ IF TITHING AND OFFERINGS WERE AS CRITICAL AS WE HAVE MISTAKENLY BEEN LED TO BELIEVE BY 80% - 90% OF PRESENT DAY U.S. EVANGELICALISM... YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IN THE ABOVE LUKE REFERENCE THE 10% TITHING ISSUE WOULD HAVE BEEN REFRENCED ONLY TO DISCOVER THAT THE MASTER HIMSELF WAS BEING SUPPORTED OUT OF THE PRIVATE MEANS OF THOSE HE HAD PERSONALY MINISTERED TO...TO THOSE WHO HAD COME TO BELIEVE IN HIM FROM THEIR HEARTS, RATHER THAN OUT OF SOME LEGALISTIC SET OF RULES THAT COULD SO EASILY BE DEMONSTRATED BY OUTWARD APPEARANCE...6 And He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME. 7 ‘BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE PRECEPTS OF MEN.’ 8 Neglecting the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men.” 9 He was also saying to them, “You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition. 10 For Moses said, ‘HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER’; and, ‘HE WHO SPEAKS EVIL OF FATHER OR MOTHER, IS TO BE PUT TO DEATH’; 11 but you say, ‘If a man says to his father or his mother, whatever I have that would help you is Corban (that is to say, given to God),’ 12 you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother; 13 thus invalidating the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and you do many things such as that.” ~ Mark 7:6-12
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