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    I Don't Believe In Tithing
    I Don't Believe In Tithing
    I Don't Believe In Tithing
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    I Don't Believe In Tithing

    By Eastwood Anaba

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    There are three groups of people with regard to tithing:
    Believers who practise tithing legalistically, by giving exactly 10% of their income to God, believing that He will curse them if they don't do it and will bless them only if they do.
    Believers who see tithing as an Old Testament thing that should not be practised by New Testament believers and attack those who practise it. These are those who protest, "I don't believe in tithing".
    Believers who give 10% or more of what they have to God out of love and are willing to give 100% to Him if He directs them to. This category doesn't always adhere to the legalistic tithing of 10% but with a positive spirit they give more if they have to - they relate to the practice of tithing in a spirit of love.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEastwood Anaba
    Release dateJan 21, 2014
    ISBN9781310145100
    I Don't Believe In Tithing
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    Eastwood Anaba

    Pastor Eastwood Anaba is the Founder and President of Eastwood Anaba Ministries (EAM), headquartered in Bolgatanga, Ghana. Eastwood Anaba Ministries is dedicated to repositioning God’s people through revival for the return of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.Pastor Eastwood is a revivalist with an uncompromising message on the Holy Ghost, Righteousness, Discipline and Order in the Body Of Christ, with a powerful emphasis on the Love of God. He has authored 46 books including God’s End –Time Militia and The Love Revolution. He and his family live in Bolgatanga, where he serves as the Senior Pastor of Fountain Gate Chapel, a people –oriented and missions hearted ministry.

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      I Don't Believe In Tithing - Eastwood Anaba

      I DON’T BELIEVE IN TITHING

      10%: TO PAY OR NOT TO PAY?

      by

      EASTWOOD ANABA

      I DON’T BELIEVE IN TITHING

      10%: TO PAY OR NOT TO PAY?

      Copyright © 2014 EASTWOOD ANABA

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      There are three groups of people with regard to tithing:

      Believers who practise tithing legalistically, by giving exactly 10% of their income to God, believing that He will curse them if they don't do it and will bless them only if they do.

      Believers who see tithing as an Old Testament thing that should not be practised by New Testament believers and attack those who practise it. These are those who protest, I don't believe in tithing.

      Believers who give 10% or more of what they have to God out of love and are willing to give 100% to Him if He directs them to. This category doesn't always adhere to the legalistic tithing of 10% but with a positive spirit they give more if they have to - they relate ot the practice of tithing in a spirit of love.

      CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      1. THE SABBATH DAY

      2. THE FORBIDDEN TREE

      3. GOD RESPECTS OFFERINGS

      4. ABRAHAM THE TITHER

      5. JACOB’S EXAMPLE

      6. THE MALACHI PACKAGE

      7. A GODLY RESPONSE TO REDEMPTION ...

      8. INSTRUCTION TO THE PHARISEES

      9. GIVE TO GOD WHAT IS GOD’S

      10. PROPORTIONATE GIVING

      11. THE PURPOSE OF TITHES

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      INTRODUCTION

      The controversy concerning tithing is unnecessary and the compulsion with which we approach it can be appalling. The Body of Christ needs a balance on this subject and it can come only through a vigorous pursuit of love. We should give in love and our attitude towards those who give or don’t, should also be love. It is unhealthy for a section of the Body of Christ to waste time and energy criticising and condemning those who practise the principle of tithing. Believers, especially ministers of the Gospel, who curse and threaten in order to coerce people into paying tithes, should change their ways and teach the Word of God in love to motivate them to give out of love and not compulsion.

      God gave the world His only begotten Son for no other reason than love. God’s way of giving should form the basis of Christian giving. He did not have to give us His only Son – after all He was not responsible for man’s fall. No one forced God to make His Son die for the sins of the world. He did not sacrifice His Son with the motive of receiving anything back from man – For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son.

      16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

      John 3:16

      Although God did not give the world His Son with the intention of receiving anything from us, He ended up receiving whosoever believes in Him. He gave one Son to the world and received billions of sons and daughters in return.

      If believers truly love God, they may choose to give Him everything they have instead of just 10%. The supernatural force of love motivates us to give to God and others. It is spiritually edifying to find opportunities and reasons for giving, but inventing reasons including twisting Scriptures for not giving is injurious to the Body. The bitterness with which critics attack tithing leads to division in the Body of Christ. There are more important things concerning the Gospel and the doctrine of Christ to engage believers in than arguing about money. Tithing is an individual’s or a particular group’s financial commitment to God and His Work. We must respect each person’s decision to give to God without imposing our beliefs on one another.

      I don’t believe in tithing, are the words spoken by critics who protest against tithing and stay away from those who practise it. Such people have a problem with the legalistic calculation of 10% of one’s income as a tithe to God. They insist that tithing is an Old Testament practice and New Testament believers have no business doing it. Such people believe that we are in the dispensation of grace and the attempt by some ministers to force believers to tithe against their will as a condition for God to bless them is unbiblical – love should be the basis upon which we give to God. They are right to maintain such a position; however, it is destructive to viciously attack those who tithe.

      Any God-fearing and God-loving believer does not believe in tithing. By saying they don’t believe in tithing, however, they are not aligning themselves with the people who angrily remonstrate against tithers. God-loving people who don’t believe in tithing are not legalistic in giving to God, they sometimes give more than 10% of what they receive to God – they may even give everything they have to Him.

      There are three groups of people with regard to tithing:

      1. Believers who practise tithing legalistically, by giving exactly 10% of their income to God, believing that He will curse them if they don’t do it

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