Here's a question from the Inbunk's pastor, John, when it comes to giving 10% of my income

to a church, my tithe.

Can I split the money and give say 5% to my church and 5% to a non-profit Christian

ministry?

What would you say about splitting of the tithe?

My guess is that some of our listeners, as soon as they hear that question, would ask,

do I even share the assumption that Christians have to tithe?

So let me start there.

No, the tithe, 10% of your income, is not a have to in the New Testament.

The New Testament puts the life of the Christian on a new footing that is different from the

old Testament law.

Paul said in Romans 7, verse 6, now we are released from the law, having died to that which

held us captive so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, not the old way of the

written code.

So for example, when Paul gives instructions about how we should give, he never instructs

us to lay aside a tithe.

He says things like lay aside as each may prosper, 1 Corinthians 16, 2, and then he says

in 2 Corinthians 8, 3 that we should give according to our means as I can testify and they gave

beyond their means of their own accord.

In 2 Corinthians 9, 6, he describes the giving that God delights in, whoever so sparingly

will reap sparingly, whoever so's boundtively will reap boundtively.

Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion

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