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The Beginning and End of Christian Giving

by Jordan J. Ballor on Monday, December 20, 2010

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Over at Mere Comments, and following up on this week’s Acton Commentary, “Christian Giving Begins with the Local Church,” I discuss some reasons why Christian giving doesn’t end there.

It’s vitally important, I think, to distinguish between the church as institution and the church as organism.

Category: Bible and Theology, Effective Compassion

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Jesus teaches that giving begins with your family “if you do not provide for your own relatives you are worse than a heathen and a tax collector”

Arguably that can extend to the church invisible as well, and replaces the tax/tribute of the tithe as Jesus taught Peter with the catch of the fish with the tithe money it its mouth.

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