Pick some adjectives to describe how you feel about paying taxes. Pick some adjectives to describe how you feel about buying Christmas or birthday presents for people you love. Lastly, pick some adjectives to describe how you feel about giving money to your local church.

Some adjective suggestions: excited, bitter, apathetic, obligated, indifferent, grateful, cynical, sad, expectant, cheerful

People tend to be quite triggered when it comes to talking about money in church. And it's probably fair to say that, historically. churches haven't always dealt very well with the issue of tithing or giving. In this fifth session of the series, Busola gets to the heart of the matter and directs us back to worshipping God wholeheartedly in every part of our lives, including our finances

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As you watch, write down how Busola answers these questions.

• Why did God create us, and what do our priorities around time and money reveal about our relationship with Him? Why was God pleased with Abel?

• Why did Melchizedek bring out bread and wine for Abram?

• According to Busola, how and why do we think differently about buying a house than we do about giving our money to God?
According to Jesus, the first and greatest commandment is. 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. Matthew 22:37-38) What does this have to do with our financial giving?

Genesis 4:2-7 recounts the story of Cain and Abel and their gifts to God. How did Cain and Abel's offerings differ materially and spiritually?

Genesis 14:18-20 is all about Abram's land ter Abraham winning the first war recorded in the Bible. God gives him victory. The priest and King Melchizedek celebrate and worship with Abram, bringing out the bread and wine. Abram responds by giving a tenth of all he has. Melchizedek is a foreshadowing of Jesus Hebrews 5:101. and in this story, we detect a pattern or principle for how God works: He moves first, blessing us with His goodwill and generosity, and so inspires us to respond by giving sacrificially.

•Is it mandatory for Christians to give a tenth of their income to the church? Why, or why not?

•Are you generally intentional about giving a certain percentage of your income to God's Kingdom? Why, or why not?

Join us Today at 8 pm (online) as we answer all these questions together and find out if Giving Tithes and Offerings is a Sacrifice or Duty. join us with the link below👇

It's a duty, it shows your love for God

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It's a duty, it shows your love for God

Some of our group members have claimed that it's a sacrifice(you can join the conversation on Dysh) because God preferred Abel's offering to Cain's offering and Able gave cheerfully and bountifully, what do you think about that?

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Some of our group members have claimed that it's a sacrifice(you can join the conversation on Dysh) because God preferred Abel's offering to Cain's offering and Able gave cheerfully and bountifully, what do you think about that?

Tax, not contribution, is wrong! Which is why Christ asked "From whom do kings of the earth take toll or tribute? From their children or from others?”

Tithes means many things but people do not love God so they miss its importance and think many foolish things about it.

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Some of our group members have claimed that it's a sacrifice(you can join the conversation on Dysh) because God preferred Abel's offering to Cain's offering and Able gave cheerfully and bountifully, what do you think about that?

Offerings and tites are not meant to be sacrifice. Out of pure love comes true giving, if you love God you would give him everything. Abel knew this when he gave offering to God out of pure love and adoration for him, he gave the best he had. Any other giving other than live for him has hidden agenda Why do you think it was written God loves a cheerful giver?

if only you knew what he has prepared for us his children who love him, you would sell everything you have and give the poor.


Jesus said clearly “Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will never fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Luke 12:32‭-‬34

"Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
Luke 6:38

Even Solomon talks about giving in ecclesiastics
Ship your grain across the sea; after many days you may receive a return. Invest in seven ventures, yes, in eight; you do not know what disaster may come upon the land
Ecclesiastes 11:1‭-‬2



The only reason why the topic has become controversial is because some churches force or compel people to give. Giving has to be from the heart and from pure love for God, after all God can order all riches into existence if he wills it so. Our giving is us saying daddy I love you.

Tithes according to the old covenant is a duty for the Israelites but in the new covenant it's a duty for all those accepting Christ Jesus as Lord. The misconception today is what the religious title chiefs are telling their followers about tithing in Christianity: We are not to pay our tithes to anyone but to Christ Jesus and it has nothing to do with material possessions or money!

As for offerings Christians we must take good care of our brothers, our place of worship and materials used to propagate the Good News that's why we make voluntary donations (offerings)

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Tax, not contribution, is wrong! Which is why Christ asked "From whom do kings of the earth take toll or tribute? From their children or from others?”

Tithes means many things but people do not love God so they miss its importance and think many foolish things about it.

So what would you say Tithes and Offerings are?

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Offerings and tites are not meant to be sacrifice. Out of pure love comes true giving, if you love God you would give him everything. Abel knew this when he gave offering to God out of pure love and adoration for him, he gave the best he had. Any other giving other than live for him has hidden agenda Why do you think it was written God loves a cheerful giver?

if only you knew what he has prepared for us his children who love him, you would sell everything you have and give the poor.


Jesus said clearly “Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will never fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Luke 12:32‭-‬34

"Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
Luke 6:38

Even Solomon talks about giving in ecclesiastics
Ship your grain across the sea; after many days you may receive a return. Invest in seven ventures, yes, in eight; you do not know what disaster may come upon the land
Ecclesiastes 11:1‭-‬2



The only reason why the topic has become controversial is because some churches force or compel people to give. Giving has to be from the heart and from pure love for God, after all God can order all riches into existence if he wills it so. Our giving is us saying daddy I love you.

Yeah I too believe that it should be from the heart, your explanation is a perfect example of what it should be, we have contradicted ourselves so much with the Bible that as Christians most have forgotten the true Aim

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Tithes according to the old covenant is a duty for the Israelites but in the new covenant it's a duty for all those accepting Christ Jesus as Lord. The misconception today is what the religious title chiefs are telling their followers about tithing in Christianity: We are not to pay our tithes to anyone but to Christ Jesus and it has nothing to do with material possessions or money!

As for offerings Christians we must take good care of our brothers, our place of worship and materials used to propagate the Good News that's why we make voluntary donations (offerings)

Isn't offering as well suppose to go to the Lord even if we say Tithes go to the Lord it is still the Church that uses it so it's safe to say that both go to church and they use it to take care of the ministry even if Tithe is a duty then what about the offering?

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So what would you say Tithes and Offerings are?

Its better when figured out.

DyshApp:


Isn't offering as well suppose to go to the Lord even if we say Tithes go to the Lord it is still the Church that uses it so it's safe to say that both go to church and they use it to take care of the ministry even if Tithe is a duty then what about the offering?

According to the scriptures tithes is for priests but offerings is for maintenance so they're not for the same purpose!

MaxInDHouse:

According to the scriptures tithes is for priests but offerings is for maintenance so they're not for the same purpose!

What part of the Bible is that?

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What part of the Bible is that?

“When you finish tithing the entire tenth of your produce in the third year, the year of the tenth, you will give it to the Levite, the foreign resident, the fatherless child, and the widow, and they will eat their fill within your cities." Deuteronomy 26:12

So this is compulsory for all Israelites that are fit and working.

Then they took from Moses all the contribution that the Israelites had brought for the work of the holy service. However, these continued to bring him voluntary offerings, morning after morning. Exodus 36:3

This is not compulsory rather it's voluntary so it's used for things that everyone uses in the temple but TITHING are mandatory as it's for Levites, Foreign Residents, Fatherless Children and Widows so that food may always be in the temple for the needy! Deuteronomy 14:26-29