Jesus Christ vs the Evangelical Tithe

Jesus Christ vs the Evangelical Tithe

# 11: The guest speaker, invited to preach tithing to a mega-church congregation, built his defence of the evangelical tithe on Hebrews, chapter 7, explaining that this chapter is a New Testament confirmation that christians are required to tithe their income to their local church.

This preacher’s assignment – for which, undoubtedly, he was highly recompensed – was to convince the mega-church audience that the account of Abraham donating 10% of his plunder (not income!) to Melchizedek (on one occasion, thousands of years ago!) – is sufficient evidence that christians are to relinquish 10% of their income (not once, but regularly!) – to the local church.  

One might think this a challenging, even impossible task considering that Lord Jesus never taught such a notion, nor did Paul, the twelve, or any New Testament writer. But this brother was skilled at manipulating both Scripture and his audience. Now I take you to….

Hebrews 7:4: “Consider how great this man [Melchizedek] was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth of the spoils.” Chapter 7 is not a teaching on tithing, but a teaching of the greatness of Melchizedek!…. which establishes the greatness of our High Priest, the Lord Jesus!…. who was “in the order of Melchizedek”. Get it?