The Old Testament Law And The New Covenant

According to other studies on church giving, congregants give an average of 2.58% of their income to their churches. That 's down from 3.11% of their income in 1968” (Garrison). When it comes to bringing our first fruits into the storehouse, we have become like Cain. We fail to provide for our widows and orphans and push the burden to our federal government and then complain when we pay federal taxes. The church of America is in a world of hurt, failing to follow God’s commands, and many are choosing to close the church doors permanently. “Of the 250,000 Protestant churches in America, 200,000 are either stagnant (with no growth) or declining; 4,000 churches close their doors every single year; there is less than half of the number of churches today than there were only 100 years ago; 3,500 people leave the church every single day; and since 1950, there are 1/3rd fewer churches in the U.S.” (Wellman). These statistics are staggering as our saints continue marching out the church door into a spiritual nap, slumber, or hard core coma.

There is an Old Covenant and a New Covenant. The Old Covenant is God’s law that was given to the Jews and is revealed in the recorded history of the Jews in the Old Testament; nonetheless, after Jesus died on the cross, the New Covenant was made and the Old Covenant that God had with the children of Abraham became obsolete. (Heb. 8: 13; Col. 2: 14)

The rules of the church help to keep the members of the community in check and to help remind them to practice humility in their everyday lives. The main rules that the church has to direct humility have are in regards to how the members dress for their daily lives and for worship on Sundays. In the general community there are no set rules against receiving credit for jobs and tasks that an Amish man or woman may have accomplished, but it is looked down upon by the community as the person receiving the praise is thought to be prideful and sinning in their lives. In their lives through religious teachings and readings they are taught to walk through life as a humble servant of God and to give forgiveness to all as Jesus did when it was his time on Earth.

Offerings- People give the church money for the local church, ministries and the church’s mission. People believe that when they give money they give it to god to help him help others.

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The lack of generosity that plagues the body of Christ is an attribute that must be detached from the Christians ethos. The very essence of greed is something that must not be named among the body of Christ. It is an antithetical to what God has called the church

This can be seen by how they dress, talk, or even by how they spend money. It can be further explained as follows: “It is good neither to eat meat nor drink wine nor do anything by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is made weak. Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. ..." (Romans 14:21-23 NKJV http://bible.com/114/rom.14.21-22.nkjv). Simply put, clergies must live by their faith in God. This is also applicable to tithing (giving), as a clergymen (and all other Christians) would give what has been predetermined in their hearts, no more, no less to the chosen cause. In fact, some clergies have convictions about accepting any pay for work do in the church! It seems crazy: the idea of working a second job after hours of labor is not for the faint of heart, but for those who are convinced it is what God has called them to do, it becomes a passionate endeavor. Coupled with certain convictions and preferences over pay, a clergy might also in effect have to crop out some of the more luxurious articles of first world life or maybe first world life in total (as in the instance of many 3rd world missionaries), regarding this, sacrifices are made by all those who follow this career path. Furthermore, clergies often do not have large amounts of job security as their career is based off attendance and

In “Does God Want You to Be Rich?” David Van Biema and Jeff Chu claim that modern day Christian pastors are using “prosperity teaching” to convince their followers that God’s wishes them to be financially well, not only in heaven but also on earth. The bible doesn’t specifically tell us about our monetary status on earth. So, pastors are preaching that if you give more than the 10% of their earnings back, then God will bless you with extra money. Even though there is no way to back up that God wanted that for his followers. People are just assuming that by giving their extra money to the church, they will be financially blessed. Therefore, Van Biema and Chu are declaring that there are no way to ensure that to the followers.

Yet as Destiny follows the bible literally, the tithe is 10% of their total income that they should give to the church. Brian claims this is to help the church support itself with all its programmes, buildings, events as well as salaries. "I don't care what the media say, I don't care what your relatives say, I don't care what the world says, nobody should be not tithing." (Sunday, 'City of God' dream becomes Destiny, 2012). Destiny also considers this fair as this helps with responsibility by helping people to manage their finances, as well as it gives them blessings from God.

In the Church, each Christian is commanded by God to give ten percent of his income back to the church. In the Old Testament, Moses wrote in Deuteronomy 12:6, “And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes.” Furthermore, the tithe was based on income. King Solomon wrote in Proverbs 3:9, “Honour the Lord with thy substance and with the firstfruits of all thine increase. What made the tithe fair for Christians was the concept of proportionality, or the quality of corresponding in size to something else. In the same way, the flat tax is based on biblical principles because it is based on proportionality and is revenue neutral. As Dr. Ben Carson said, “You make $10 billion, you pay a billion, you make ten dollars, you pay one (dollar).” (Julia Limitone) The Bible has one interpretation but many applications and mankind can certainly apply the principles of tithing to tax

A major example of giving begins with Paul and his account of the financial need that was obviously very great for the young New Testament church. The less time that

The Ark of the Covenant was a sacred “house” that held the Ten Commandments and some manna that fell from heaven. The whole of the Old Testament Covenants are all connected to God’s plan. The Paschal Mystery finalizes those Covenants, and connects them in a more tangible way; God sent Jesus to earth to die for our sins. All of the Israelites history is important (because if one thing had changed, it could have delayed or changed all of the New Testament), but the times of the judges, the monarchy, and the role of the prophets are the key points that show how hard the Israelites struggled to be Christians. The Book of Judges explains the hardships that the Israelites encountered when they reached Canaan. They had no government, they lived as

“If we will put God first with the tithe, He will bless us, in fact, He will open up the flood gates of Heaven and pour out so much blessing on us that we won't have room enough for it,” said Noble. “In 90 days, if you don't feel like God has blessed you … We'll refund every dime you gave during that 90-day period.”

In economics, the meaning of incentives implies that this is the tool to inspire people to behave as predicted by those who make those incentives (James D. Gwartney, 2016). In another words, incentives are the motivations that make people to do some things more than others. In economical level, incentives make people to prefer one product over other based on the difference on their prices. The Bible is the guideline for Christians about morality, motivating believers to act in certain way (Williamson, 2005). One of the main incentives of the Old Testament was to act certain way to achieve salvation, which, however, changed in New Testament with coming of Jesus Christ. In the Old Testament times, people of God must

For many Christians, there is a dichotomy in the scriptures that give instructions that are appropriate for one to leave an inheritance and the Parable of the Rich Fool. On the one hand, Proverbs states that “A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children (13:22, Amplified Bible). On the other hand, the man who decided to hoard his wealth so much so that he needed to build additional quarters, was admonished and died ( Luke 12;19, Berean Study Bible). For some, this is a biblical contradiction, for others, acquiring for the purpose of sustaining one‘s existence at the point of retirement and having the ability bequeath one’s fortune is different than simply stockpiling for self-satisfaction. Therefore, believers, if possible, should plan for life after working years.