Jesus Christ vs the Evangelical Tithe

Jesus Christ vs the Evangelical Tithe

# 10: The greasy stain emitted from love-of-money – a reproach spread throughout worldwide evangelical leadership – is adequately exposed to anyone having eyes to see and ears to hear every sunday when the practiced professionals flaunt their skills. The most adroit extractors reap a tenth; the less skillful must settle for less.

The Holy Spirit never included one example in the New Testament of a collection during the gathering of the saints. That reality should mean something to those claiming reverence for the Bible. (Some might recall the collection for the troubled saints in Jerusalem, but this was not a public collection.) However this absence of a New Testament precedent doesn’t discourage the money people; they simply revert to the Old Testament to authenticate their notion that saints must pay for services rendered.

Some point to Malachi to teach their people what Paul never taught his people – their tenth must be surrendered to the oversight of the salaried – the salaried being the (supposed) Levite priests of the New Covenant.

Were the (non-salaried) New Testament, Spirit-filled writers – Luke, Paul, Peter, James, John and Jude – derelict for not warning their readers of Christ’s displeasure (wrath?) for those withholding their tenth from them?