I moved to Canada about five months ago to pastor West Park Church in London, Ontario. I’m enjoying living and serving in Canada. Early on I realized that I needed to teach on generosity. So, last week I brought a message on tithing, the fourth in a series on generosity. I don’t think I’ve every delivered a message that elicited so many positive comments as did this one. So, if you teach on giving, I hope this message will help. I’ve included a short outline below as well as a link to the full text of the sermon. The manuscript doesn’t reflect perfect grammar, but I hope you find it useful.

Tithing sermon outline:

Title: Tithing..say what?

Introduction: give caveat about pastors talking about money.

Main scripture: Malachi 1, 3

Review main points of prior sermons on generosity.

Big idea: you can grow a heart of generosity by making these four choices

1. Assess your current giving level: the 7 kinds of givers
   1. $0 givers
   2. impulse givers
   3. cash givers
   4. percentage givers
   5. tithers
   6. tithe plus givers
   7. living cap givers
2. Understand the real meaning of tithing.
   1. Deal with the objection that tithing is Old Testament
3. Create a realistic giving plan. (1 Cor 16.2)
   1. systematic
   2. personal
   3. proportional
4. Start somewhere. Where you start will not be where you want to end up.
   • cautions: don’t wait until you can afford it
   • don’t wait until you are dead
   • don’t wait until you have more money
   • don’t wait until you can fully think it through.

Challenge to join next week’s tithe demo day.

Here’s the link to the pdf: tithing by Charles Stone 2014 for blog

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