A Christian feels compelled to serve Christ. A strict 10% tithe of income reminds me of the Pharisees. They were apparently very good at following the letter of the law without understanding its intent.
Without listing the relevant scripture (it is easy enough to research separately), the New Testament says the Church is made up of all sorts of different people. Some people are teachers, some pray, some give, etc. Whatever one feels led by Christ to do, they should be very generous in that regard.
I do not feel led to give 10% to maintain a beautiful building that’s rarely used outside of Sunday. I do feel compelled to serve Christ in other ways.
Some churches have modest or even shabby buildings, and use the money to help out needy people by way of representing Jesus Christ, and/or for more direct evangelism outreaches. Not all flavors of Christian congregations agree that all approaches are proper and will spend hours arguing about it sometimes, but it’s not necessarily “to maintain a pretty building.” If you wonder what a particular church congregation is using their offerings for, ask it. Most will be tickled to show you.
If everyone shared your view there would be no churches or pastors to lead them and help those in need. God loves a cheerful giver, so I don’t think he really wants your money anyway...at least not right now.
I find most people who attack “tithing” as pharasitical, or claim it’s an old-testament teaching that has no place in Christianity, are almost always people who don’t give 10%, and often argue they do “other things”.
A church generally has a building. It has to be paid for. They have a pastor, he needs a salary, he has to buy food for his family. There’s heat, there’s musical instruments and probably a sound system. There’s supplies for sunday school.
There’s missionaries that need support, that need to be fed and clothed and given shelter while they share the gospel.
Now, if you want to go BE the missionary, I guess that’s a good reason not to tithe, since you won’t have any money. But how else but tithing do you expect your pastor to be paid, your church to be maintained?
There aren’t many people who use their freedom from the law of tithing to give more than 10% to their church, or to church-related things.
I do understand that it is probably easier to tithe when you’ve done it all your life, because you can’t miss what you never had.