Pay Your Tithes Using Your Cell Phone
A new iPhone app called MyTithe that allows you to pay your tithes or contribute offerings by using your cell phone.
A new iPhone app called MyTithe that allows you to pay your tithes or contribute offerings by using your cell phone.
Throughout the Scriptures we find admonitions to remember the poor in the land and yet there are many today who choose to ignore these passages. People tend to come up with a multitude of excuses justify their inaction, but let’s take a look at how the Bible would answer some of those common excuses.
It’s clear that over the last few years very few individuals or families followed the concept of a monthly budget. Recent studies continue to show that the majority of Americans don’t even have a budget. And even among those that do set a budget, few actually follow it. However, one of the positive effects of this current economic crisis is that budgeting is coming back into vogue.
Since tithing is definitely a principle taught in the Bible, it is absolutely shocking to hear the number of people that teach that tithing isn’t relevant for Christians today. Many of these individuals decry tithing as an “illegal and abusive practice of the Church”. They claim that if you practice tithing you are still under “Old Testament bondage”. The purpose of this article is not to identify every scripture in the Bible relating to tithing, but rather to try to refute some of the arguments commonly used to convince people that Christians don’t need to tithe.