I want to start tithing. But can I give it to charity instead of give it to the church?

Question

want to start tithing. But I don't go to church. is it the same if I give the 10% of my income to charity like children with cancer or other people in need instead of giving it to my local church?
Can I split the tithe and give to more than just one charity?

Answer 1

i'd say if in ur heart you are giving as unto God ur in the clear ..

Answer 2

When you tithe, you are giving to God 10% of your income. If you do not attend a church, you have another choice, that is to go to any church office, and give them the money which would be used to further God's work in the way the church decides. If you are not comfortable with that, God would honour the fact that you are giving the money to charity. If you decide to split up the tithe between charities, that would be ok. The money would be of great benefit to charities, just be selective about which ones, some are not non profit organizations. God bless you.

Answer 3

It is your money. Handle it as you think best. Giving it to a church will help no one who is need of help. Here is the straight skinny on tithing. There are three mentioned in the bible. That makes 30%. The first 10% went to the support of the priesthood. The second 10% was to be used to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. The third 10% was to be used to support widows and orphans. It was not paid every year. Only every third year. Those are the origins of tithing. Whatever anyone today says of tithing, comes from their church and not the bible. I hope this information will be of assistance. I am an atheist so there will be a lot of thumbs down, I expect. I give money to military veterans assistance organizations.

Answer 4

Tithe is to give the first ten percent of your income to God. Since you can't give it directly to God it can be given to do Gods work. It does not have to be any church. I have been tithing 10 percent of our family income for the last 13 years. We weren't doing too well financially back then. I was doing a great deal of reading. I read Deepak Chopra, a biography of the founder of Home Interiors, and a few other books and the theme of all them was tithing. Now, the very first check/checks written is for ten percent of our income to a charitable organization of our choice and then bills are paid.

It's a wonderful practice. Don't be bullied to give to a church if you do not feel you should. There is nothing wrong with giving to a church just don't do it unless you feel good about it. If your tithe helps people then you are helping to do Gods work.

Answer 5

the tithe is the ten percent that belongs to God and in Malachi 3:10 it speaks of bringing the tithe to the storehouse that there may be meat in mine house, saith the Lord.

This is how the church pays for the lights, the Pastor, bibles whatever.
The gospel is free, but it costs money to get it out.

This is the only scripture that speaks of testing God. If you tithe, God will bless you for it and those that don't tithe are considred to be robbing God(Malachi 3:8)

God will always provide for you, you can't outgive God.

It is said all Christians tithe whether voluntarily or not, God gets his tithe.

Charities are not the same, though many are worthy.

Phil 4:18-19
speaks of the fruit that is added to our accounts when we give not just the tithe, but beyond that an offering.
You can give above your tithe to give through your church to missionaries, and other worthy causes.

2Corinthians 9 tells us God loves a cheerful giver, because God himself is a giver, he gave his Son to pay the price of our sins.

God gives us everything and asks only 10 percent in return.

Answer 6

God wants you to learn to give, If you are attending a church, then it should go there, but if not,,help others..I think it is wonderful that you want to give. There are some who believe tithing was under the law...that under Grace we are to give as much as we can whenever we can....

Many Christians know about Romans ch. 7-- freedom from the law, and living instead by the spirit. What they don't know is that tithing is part of the law. Therefore, they are actually preaching against Romans ch. 7 when they preach tithing.

Answer 7

ithing and giving to charity are two different things. Tithing is giving to the Father what rightfully belongs to Him (read Leviticus 27:30) and honoring the Father with our substance (Proverbs 3:9-10).

Charity is given out of our love, and givers must be careful not to boast about giving it. (Matthew 6:1-4)

Answer 8

Most of the money at my church is given to charity. Project Compassion. Charitable Works Fund St. Vincent De Paul

Answer 9

That really depends upon your understanding of scripture. The tithe is meant as the portion of your money for the support of your "place of worship", which in many cases would be your congregation, but if you experience a lot of growth and relationship with some other group it might be appropriate consider that group a part of your "place of worship" and count your financial support of that group as part of your tithe.

Another thing to remember is that we are not bound by the Law. Tithing is Old Testament so you could say that we are not bound to follow it, however, we are still supposed to support the place of worship and the ministers and a tithe is a good way to do that.

Answer 10

Your desire to give is commendable but the expression "tithe" means specifically to give to your religious organization.

You can still donate the same amount of money to worthwhile charities and feel good about it, just do not call it tithing and you will be grammatically correct.

Answer 11

If you can think of your income as really God's money, and tithing is just a way of giving back to God what He loaned to you, then you will be led to give more to the church where His presence is felt.