This issue of tithe have been one thing that have create a lot of problem in the Christian world, some argue that the meaning of tithe or tithing is to bring one tenth of your total monthly earning to the house of God, other argue that the meaning of tithe is to remove one tenth if your monthly earning and donate it out to either someone that is sick, have no food to eat, have job etc that is sole meaning of tithe was purely for charity and not taking your tithe to a man of God.

Tithe or tithing was design by moses, but what was it design for, this is one thing a lot of people don't know and believe that taking the money to the house of God is just what it was design for and nothing more, but Wait, let me ask you a question, if you have 20,000 naira which was suppose to be your tithe money and along the way you saw someone that is almost dead, you rush to help, and you took him to the hospital, after taking him to the hospital, the doctor now told you that you he need 20,000 naira for that person to stay alive, now my question is (A) would you have use your tithe to pay for his medical or (B) you would not since the bible talks about bringing the tithe to the church. If your answer is (B) your wrong because the bible talks about the church as individual not a building.

Now let go down, tithe was design for the purposes of charity, in the olden days pastor have no other job rather than been a pastor and don't have any other source of income, those pastors live in the church, orphans comes to the church everyday, the less privilege comes to the church everyday, widows comes to the church everyday, disabled people comes to the church everyday, etc, now the question is what are all these people coming to do in the church everyday, the answer is very simple FOOD and CLOTHING, and, SHELTER

Moses understand that these people were suffering and he needed to do something in order for the less privilege, widow, orphan to be happy and not feel bad about their situation, so he design a system that for every body that have food, should bring 10 percent of that food to the church, and if that person can't food because of how far the church is then he/she should sell it, that when he or she is getting closer to the church he/she should use that money and purchase any food or cloth that comes to his/her mind,so that those widow, orphans, less privilege, disabled person, etc that comes to the church everyday including the ones living in the church like the pastor and others will have food to eat and also people that comes there for cloth will have some cloth to put on, so this is to tell you that the purposes of tithe or tithing was design purely for humanitarian services or and nothing more so if he uses the 20,000 that was suppose to be use for tithe, and pay for the strangers medical fee is tithe because that was what tithe or tithing was design for and nothing more.

If you pay tithe to your church, and your pastor uses the tithe money to help the someone that need assistant financially like payment of medical fee to people who don't have financial support or assistance, or using the tithe money to help the widow, created skill acquisition program for people, free medical health care in a community where there is no hospital or clinic. That pastor can be regarded as someone who understand the sole purpose of tithe or tithing, and I will always advice you to always pay your tithe donation to that church because it is always used for its purpose

But if you pay your tithe to a church and instead of the pastor to use the money for humanitarian services, he use the mony to start buying houses, building school where the common man can't attend or building an hospital where his poor church member can't afford to pay for his/her medical bills, or building estates where 50 percent of his member can afford to pay the rent fees, I think you should stop paying your tithe to that church because your tithe donation is not being used for its purposes.

The purpose of tithe or tithing was design for humanitarian services, which means that If you pay tithe to your church at least 80 percent of that donation should be used for charity works or humanitarian services, then the remaining should be used for for assisting the pastors.

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