Grace, Tithing & Church Buildings
Episode 13 · October 8th, 2018 · 1 hr 27 mins
About this Episode
If you listened to the previous episode, "Law Vs Grace," you know that the first Covenant under the Law does not apply to us in any way once we have come under a Covenant of Grace. The 10% tithe, required under the first Covanant, as with all things required by the law under the first Covenant is no longer mandated under Grace. Neither are church buildings. There is no mandate for either of them anywhere in the New Testament post resurrection and ascension of Jesus. Then why is the 10% tithe being taught as though it is scripturally mandated and, thus, a still a requirement? And equally so, why do church buildings continue to be so central to our faith? Can a correlation be made between maintaining the practice of a 10% tithe and the necessity for building churches? If a 10% tithe is not a scripturally mandated requirement, nor is the necessity for constructing church buildings, does that mean that we are off the hook for giving anything at all? No, of course not. Giving, though, just like acts of love, is a matter of the heart and cannot be legislated. When we give freely and completely of ourselves in the ways we serve others, then all other areas of our lives will be a reflection of that as well, including financial giving and not the other way around.