Christian Television April 7, 2009
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Tithing is RESERVED for the place where you partake in fellowship and the word. Tithing is to build up the LOCAL fellowship you belong to, for you to be a part of a PERSONAL, effective witness to the world. You tithe to the church where you continually receive the benefits of fellowship and personally partake in outreach.
You do not tithe to a Television station or a para-church organisation or ministry (such as this one, or any other ministry which conducts crusades and Christian Television – Benny Hinn, Morris Cerullo, Reinhard Bonnke, TBN, Praise The Lord, etc). You do not know those ministries personally, or benefit from fellowship through them. Any money you give to them is over and above your tithe, called a free-will Offering.
The biblical term to describe a para-church organisation is an “Apostolic Ministry”. So, an individual is not to tithe to the Apostolic Ministry directly.
Apostolic ministries are answerable to the Local Church so it is for the Church to TITHE OF THE TITHES to the television stations, internet ministries, gospel crusades etc.
The same principle of Tithing applies to the Church as it does to individuals. THE CHURCH MUST TITHE OF ITS COLLECTION, to who? To the Apostolic ministries, like us. You as an individual can still give a free-will offering, but understand it is free-will, not demanded by God.
This ensures the Television station and other ministries, such as we, are connecting and working together with the local church and everyone is getting their due for what work they do. It is so that everyone finishes their job in their own vineyard before moving on somewhere else.
If any para-church Apostolic ministry has a call, God WILL PROVIDE for it, no matter if churches fail to support where they should.
The Apostolic ministry, television stations and internet ministries are mainly for the unsaved who would not go to a church. So every committed Christian should belong to a Church, and have a place they can tithe to. Or your prayer life and witness will die, if you have no fellowship, but depend on your Television.
And the Church will be very lean, and die spiritually if your church does not support these Apostolic ministries like us with the Tithe of the collection! As the Scripture says, Cursed with a curse – even the Church budgets – Ye churches have robbed God, Malachi 3:9 and
2 Corinthians 11:8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them, to do you service.
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