From the multitude of sermons on “tithing” you would get the impression that God had filled the Bible with hundreds of verses on paying the tithe to the church. But the fact is that there are fewer than twenty verses in the whole Bible that talk about the tithe and almost all of them are in the Old Testament and all of them are associated with the Old Testament Jewish law. It seems, with many pastors, that a tithing message comes up frequently as if that is one of the main things God has on His mind. Many Christians have been beaten down with this message and left to feel guilty, if for some reason, they could not come up with the ten percent to put in the plate. It seems that many preachers stress that the tithe should be paid even before a past due mortgage or an unexpected medical expense. But what is the tithe? To whom was it to be paid? What was the purpose of the tithe? Does it have anything to do with the church today? Did any of the New Testament churches pay tithes? Did Paul instruct any of the churches to pay tithes? Let us find out if the modern teaching on tithing is a biblical truth or a myth?
