“I understand that this is the week for the church collection, and many of you do not want to give a thing. You ungrateful people should be ashamed of yourselves. . . . I am sorry I ever freed you from the tyrants and the papists. You ungrateful beasts, you are not worthy of the treasure of the gospel. If you don’t improve, I will stop preaching rather than cast pearls before swine.”
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Martin Luther Beats the Offering Plate Over My Head
As someone who's knee-jerk response to talk of tithes and offerings is to break out in hives and start frothing at the mouth, I think I benefited a little bit from this Martin Luther quote over at Christ Is Deeper Still:
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you break out into hives too??!
:)-
having no pennies (or for that matter anything bigger than pennies) solves that problem....
but really, I wonder if tithing isn't more about just being willing to give everything (not just money, and not just 10%) to God (not necessarily church)out of trust and out of love, knowing that if He's creator, he can take care of us.
p.s. I also think this blog post should come with an illustration of the title. I feel a little cheated.
Very good perspective on giving!
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