Jesus Christ vs the Evangelical Tithe
Jesus Christ vs the Evangelical Tithe
# 4: John gave a fiery rebuttal to # 2. (# 2 strongly suggests that Jesus hates the evangelical tithe.) Unlike most pastors who refuse to publicly respond to Facebook critics daring to challenge the evangelical way and its awful tithe, John had the grit to confront my posting.
The defense John presented is very similar (identical?) to that presented by pulpit-people throughout evangelicalism. Therefore if John is mistaken, all these pulpit-people are mistaken. (And it must be said, if John is correct, they are correct, and I am the deluded one.) Evangelical, it is your responsible to the One you call “Lord” to seriously determine His will regarding the evangelical tithe – a tithe that determines the fate of millions of christians and non-christians.
I condense John’s lengthy composition to three major particulars. One: Jesus Himself today receives the evangelical’s tenth.
Two: Quote: “Jesus did not deactivate the Law but expanded it.”
Three. Faithfulness to Malachi 3:10-18 will “activate the Lord of the Armies of God…. on our own personal behalf.”
Is the evangelical tithe rooted in the Bible or in man’s greed? A command of Lord Jesus or one of many “doctrines of demons”? God’s word or religious trickery? Ask Jesus, your infallible Teacher, to guide you via the Holy Spirit as you dare to compare two opposing perspectives. (Jesus: “One is your Teacher, the Christ.”)
In the next article, # 5, I will respond to John’s three contentions.