DO WE STILL NEED TO TALK ABOUT TITHING?

 DO WE STILL NEED TO TALK ABOUT TITHING?

                   Church has been on several verbal attacks on the media for collection of tithes from church members. Some even said pastors are spending their tithes. Some pastors too have taken time to have been used to teach sound doctrines to talk about tithe. Tithing should not be a discourse among Children of God. It is an anomaly to be teaching a child of God to pay tithes. It should not be so. Doing so simply means the pastor does not understand his call and purpose. During the pandemic, some ridiculed the church that: "thank God the door of the church is locked no more tithes for Pastor". What an Ignorance? If the whole church refuse to pay tithes , the God that call the pastor will take good care of him. Pastors and other ministers of God are more prosperous in this pandemic than the previous years. This is to tell you that it is you that your tithes is working for and not your pastor. If you pay tithe it is for your own good and not for the good of your pastor.

                Dear Pastor teach your members the sound doctrine of the word, preach the word. The word is spirit and it is the word that gives life and salvation. Focus on the salvation of your members and their spiritual growth. If your members are really saved you will not need to be preaching long sermons on tithing before they give judiciously to the work of God. If they are watered spiritually they will bless you with their substance physically without you asking or preaching it on the pulpit. A growing church does not talk about tithing on the pulpit. As it is of habit of some churches to Psyche members with biblical verses before they can collect tithes from them. Some churches will even collect offering like ten times in a service of two hours. I attended one and I was hearing different kind of offerings that I have never heard before in the service. After paying for the tenth time I refused to drop again. After the service I asked the member how are you coping with these serial offerings. He responded that many of the church members were clever since they know they are paying offering ten to twelve times, they usually drop lower denomination like 10 naira and twenty naira into the offering basket. Religious churches will only produce religious Christians that are clever and smarter than their pastors. Dear Pastor, be interested in their souls, labour in your closets to give them undiluted word of God and they will give more than tithes and offerings.

Abolanle Oladipupo

8th January, 2021