The Bible’s teaching on giving runs from the tithe, a tenth set apart for God, through freewill offerings and gifts to the poor, to the collections of the first churches. Jesus praised a poor widow’s two coins (Mark 12:41-44), and Paul gathered money for the poor in Jerusalem (Romans 15:26). In the law the tithe was a fixed tenth, while a freewill offering was given in proportion to the blessings God had given (Deuteronomy 16:10). Much of the giving the…
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