The Tenth Goat
Tithing, surprisingly, can be quite a controversial subject. There are those who question its applicability in today's day and age and those who think that it must be practiced. Among those who think that it must be practiced, there are disagreements on how they think it should be applied. To get around all those people, today, we are going to ignore the first issue and focus on what exactly tithing was. How was it done, and when? This is a larger issue than it appears on the surface, and it bleeds over into the other offerings quite a bit, especially freewill offerings. We will keep it strictly to tithing as much as we can today, and in the future, we will explore the other offerings. I say the other offerings because tithing is an offering, too. It is a form of giving back to God a portion of what He has blessed us with. However, it had a practical application for God's people as well. God never asks us for more than we can bear, and every offering takes the person giving it