What about Tithing (Part 5)

This is the fifth of 5 consecutive posts on this subject...you might want to listen to and read the other posts before making some comment about how the NT doesn't teach "tithing", we already agree on that...but it does teach grace giving, and we ought to agree on that as well...God intends that as we increase, that increase ought to have effect on our standard of giving, not simply our standard of living...

You don't have to try and find out exactly the line where you need to start; most are doing that so as to know what they can avoid doing. It's like the parable of the Good Samaritan, the lawyer wanted to know who his neighbor was, not so he could know who to love, but so he could know who he didn't have to. The same happens when it comes to the matter of giving to the church. It's not that people don't want to give too little; it's that they don't want to give too much! You could give whatever it is that you feel is your “obligation”, and discharge your “duty” and God still not have your heart. You are commanded to give, but even if you found some imaginary line where God was happy with, it is only a start, not a finish (Luke 17:10).