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Why Christians Should Not Tithe: A History of Tithing and a Biblical Paradigm for Christian Giving is unavailable, but you can change that!

The premise of Why Christians Should Not Tithe is simple: God, having freed his people from the Law through faith in Jesus Christ, does not place on them a burden from the Law. The thesis is equally as simple: Christian giving is not a tithe. Christ challenges the believer to give himself and his possessions to the gospel cause, but the tithe fixes a limit and implies nothing more is needed. Why...

The believer is not commanded to give, he is informed of his moral obligation to give. There is no word in the Greek text corresponding to the translation “should” in the NKJV, NIV, and HCSB translations of 1 Corinthians 9:14 (NKJV: “should [live] from”; NIV: “should [receive] their”; HCSB: “should [earn] their”), or the translation “to get” in the NASB95 (“to get their”). The text is, “So also the Lord has appointed to those the gospel announcing of the gospel to live.” The verb “to those [the gospel]
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