What is Tithing?
Episode 16 of the Wednesday in the Word podcast, hosted by Krisan Marotta, titled "What is Tithing?" was published on April 22, 2013 and runs 28 minutes.
April 22, 2013 ·28m · Wednesday in the Word
Summary
The Bible has about 500 verses on prayer and over 2000 verses on money and income. While both prayer and finances are important to God, I suspect money gets more verses because we have more trouble with it -- particularly giving it away. We don't like to think about tithing; we avoid sermons on it and we have lots of questions about it. In my experience, most sermons on tithing boil down to "give more, give often -- to us". But the information I really want is the whys and hows b...
Episode Description
The Bible has about 500 verses on prayer and over 2000 verses on money and income. While both prayer and finances are important to God, I suspect money gets more verses because we have more trouble with it -- particularly giving it away.
We don't like to think about tithing; we avoid sermons on it and we have lots of questions about it.
In my experience, most sermons on tithing boil down to "give more, give often -- to us". But the information I really want is the whys and hows behind tithes and offerings from the giver's perspective and whether the New Testament changes anything.
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