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Excellent book! Presented with precision, balance and love!,
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Beyond Tithes and Offerings is a wonderful book! Many of the books and articles I have thus far read concerning this perspective of the tithe are often negative, critical and neglect to encourage the practice of true Christian giving principles according to the Word of God, which can only be effectively enacted out of a changed heart, filled with God's love and divine purpose. Beyond Tithes and Offerings is for certain a brilliant exception!This book not only outlines clearly and simply the proper biblical context of tithing (in contrast to the traditional view taught in most churches today - including my own, yikes! hehe), but it presents a practical challenge to invite the Lord to come and inspire our motivation to give out of our abundance to supply the lack of others; not out of necessity or by compulsion, but out of love. If you are one who perhaps has chosen a non-tithing position thinking that this means you are now exempt from a responsibility to give (even of your finances), this book will, on the contrary, prove you otherwise and challenge you directly in your faith and your relationship with Jesus. Beyond Tithes and Offerings does not neglect the importance of understanding Christ's heart as it concerns our giving. Since reading this book, in addition to my own personal Bible studies and prayer, I have experienced a revitalized sensitivity to the Holy Spirit and a fresh liberty in the area of giving that I had been missing before. I learned so much more than what tradition has taught me over the years (or perhaps I should say mis-taught). I highly would recommend this book to pastors as well as any Christian who would invite a challenge to their faith and the opportunity to grow in their understanding of God's Word as it applies to the subject of true Christian giving. The motivation of this book is not to divide churches or turn members against their tithe-preaching pastors or from giving financially to care for the needs of the local church, on the contrary it encourages spiritual growth and attention to the reality and power of God's Word that needs to be wholly applied to our lives in every area. This book is not against giving, in fact it encourages it and pastors needn't feel threatened by the title. It is certainly not the common perspective of most church leaders and Christians in general today (and for many may be a little hard to swallow because it so severely offends the tradition many have religiously observed for years), but it is the biblical perspective and one that I believe has the potential to revolutionize the way churches operate today. I especially encourage pastors to read this book, because, rest assured, probably a good number of your flock already are! It's going to make preaching the traditional tithe (with Scripture) a whole lot harder, as people begin to just read for themselves the simple truth revealed right in the pages of God's Word.
39 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
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The best book for freedom from tithing and the law!,
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Michel webb et al, have done a masterful job of proving once and for all that tithing is NOT a New Testament command.It has been taught by many ministers and TV preachers that tithing is THE key to prosperity for the believer. Some preachers and teachers even go so far as to state that unless you tithe (work of the law, mind you) you don't even qualify for blessing. Excuse me, but the New Testament example for prosperity and any gift we receive from God is based on 2 Corinthians 8:9. By His poverty, we become rich...not through the work of tithing. Giving should be from the heart as we have purposed; not by compulsion to a law. We are under Grace NOT the Law. We give because we are already blessed NOT to get blessed. **The authors have covered this masterfully in their book.** In addition, tithing was under the OT Law to which Christ did several things: * Fulfilled it All of these references deal with the Law. Consequently, as a one Dr. Jay Snell has noted, we obey the Law not as an external document which damns; but as an inward impulse. And further, if you are a Gentile by birth, you were NEVER under the Law to begin with. Only the Jew was given the Law. Under the New Testament, the Christian was never and is never told to give a certain percentage by compulsion; on the contrary, we have the freedom to give freely as we have purposed in our hearts. Not a legalistic 10%, but an amount that we have chosen from the heart because we give out of love. This also means that giving beyond 10% is both possible and probable. **The authors cover this in their book as well.** Ask yourself reader: "Have I ever been blessed so much that I have not had room to receive it?" This is an oft-quoted promise based upon Malachi 3. But as you drive down the streets of anywhere, USA, you cannot tell the tithers on one side of the street from the non-tithers on the other side. Something is wrong somewhere. And consider this: the very ministers who teach tithing as binding upon a New Testament Believer as THE way of prosperity are actually placing the very people they are trying to get blessed UNDER A CURSE! How? Simple: by placing you under the Law in this one area of tithing, they are actually placing the burden to obey the ENTIRE Law upon you. Ministers cannot say, "Yes, we were redeemed from the Law but in this one area of tithing, it is still binding." These ministers even quote Malachi 3--an Old Testament passage written to those under the Law--as proof that we are blessed by tithing. However, you cannot pick and choose which parts of the Law to keep. As Paul said in Galatians, "he that chooses to obey the law in one point is a debtor to the WHOLE entire Law." In other words, if you take it upon yourself to obey one part of the Law, you are OBLIGATED to keep the entire thing! And with 613 different commands and ordinances to keep, it'll keep you busy. But this kind of teaching frustrates the very Grace teaching of the New Testament. Either Christ * Fulfilled the Law or He didn't. The Bible says He did. Therefore, tithing is no longer binding upon today's Christian. Many who teach tithing agree that it was under the Law and then go back to the period before the Law to substantiate tithing as a principle. In other words, if tithing or the giving of ten percent occurred before the Law, then it is binding today. But that is no argument. All of those who tithed before the Law were spiritually dead and there is no record of Adam and Eve tithing. Any appeal to the period of time before the law as proof of tithing being binding today in principle, is on shaky ground at best. **This book covers this as well as other objections.** I recommend that if you purchase this book, also get other books such as NO More Tithing," and "Did the Apostle Paul Teach Tithing to the Church?" These will prove once and for all that you are free to give...not obligated to give.
19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
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tithing is only for those under the law,
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I have felt coerced and guilty by my (former) pastor who insisted we give 10% of our gross salary to our local church, or else face God's wrath... I have always given 10% out of love but then after being hammered at, I started doing it out of guilt, fear and self-righteousness. Money seems to be very important today. This is a good - but rather long book. Also read the great internet article "Old testament giving vs. New testament giving" by Brian Anderson of Solid Rock church in Milpitas, CA.
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