WholeLife Community Church

"Where Life is worth Living"

• Home
• Vision
• Who's Who
• Church Calendar
• Church Library
• Contact Us
• Daily Word
• Donations
• Community Partnership Resources
• Friends 4 Life
• Tithes and Offerings
• Guest Book
• Ministry Request
• "Our Church Outside Our Walls Ministries"
• Pastor's Corner - "The Word of Life"**NEW ARTICLE**
• Project H.O.P.E., CDC
• WholeLife Christian Academy

Tithes and Offerings

Giving tithes and offerings to our Lord in response to His faithfulness to us and in recognition of the fact that all we have is His, is such a treasured opportunity.

We are pleased to provide this convenient option for those who desire to honor God through WholeLife Community Church.  Please accept our deepest gratitude for your generosity.

It is important for us to suggest that it is our conviction that God intended the tithe to be offered to the church where we receive our spiritual strength and nurture.  If you are a part of another church family please be sure that your tithe is offered there.

Thanks again for your faithfulness to God and WholeLife Community Church.

Pastor Michael H. Odom, Sr.

Why Should We Tithe?

Since God owns everything — "the cattle on a thousand hills" and all there is — it might seem that He doesn't really need our tithes and offerings. He doesn't need them, true, but we need to give them. For, in instructing us to tithe, God is helping us to understand the law of reciprocity.

In addition, failure to tithe means we are actually robbing God of what is due Him. In Malachi 3:8-9, God spells out the results when the nation of Israel does not repay Him what they owe:

"Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. But you ask, 'How do we rob you?' In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse — the whole nation of you — because you are robbing me."

When we tithe, we receive many blessings from God.

"Give,and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap" (Luke 6:38).

And what blessings were promised to the people of Israel, if they would once again tithe!

"Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house.Test and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it. I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not cast their fruit," says the Lord Almighty (Malachi 3:10-12).

We are also told that when we give to others, we give to God:

"He who is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward him for what he has done" (Proverbs 19:17).