Tithes and Offerings! The Purpose

Like any organizations or group, church also needs financial support from its members in order to grow, and that's where enters the tithes and offerings. We use those money to build and maintain chapels and buy instruments for the church. We also need to support dedicated missionaries and pastors with their basic necessities like food and clothing. We need to have also budgets for the church programs and activities. One more very important purpose of these is to help members who are less fortunate. Look what did first apostles did with their properties to help their brethren (Acts 2:45, 4:34-35). There are really many purpose of the material things that each member is willing to contribute in order for one church to grow and if we don't neglect these obligations we do help in building the kingdom of God on earth.

God knows everything about these that's why He said on Malachi 3:10, "Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house." He even challenge the believers as we continued to read it.. "Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it."

There's also big warning to those who plan to lie infront of God. Read the story of Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1-11) who both died because they lie to God about about money. But great blessings awaits those who obey the word of God and do their obligations on tithes and offerings (Heb. 6:10).