Well; if one takes the words at face value; you might be right.
The 'tithe' was a command given to the Jews: GOD's Chosen People.
Are Non-Jewish, NT Christians required to 'tithe'?
The list given to the Gentiles in Acts 15 fails to mention it.
Jesus failed to mention it in John 6:28-29
And Paul writes to the Cornithians thusly:
2 Corinthians 9:6-7 (esv)
6 The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully[a] will also reap bountifully. 7 Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
I can do without the guilt trip about a man robbing GOD (Malachi 3:8-12) that seems to pop up at least once a year.
Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
But the tithes was 10 percent, the same as a tax and it went for the same purpose as what we pay tax to our Government now regardless of where we live except it was not so extensive.
The Leviticus priesthood are the ones who managed the Government.
At the time of Jesus the Government was controlled partly by the Jews and by the Romans.
Jesus warned that it was all going to end and it did, there were no more priesthood to pay the tithes to and what would they have done with it? they no longer had a Government to manage.
So that is why tithes was not mentioned in the new testament except in past tense.
We are supposed to give and we are told that when we give we are not to let the left hand know what the right hand does.
In other words don,t keep account of what we give, its not no one else,s business what we give because we are not giving just to get, nor to show some one else how great we are.
When the Pentecostal Church sent me a statement at the end of the year so that i could deduct my alms for tax purpose i quit, for the simple reason if they could not understand the teaching of Jesus any better than that i would look for some one who could.
So i guess we have a different idea of what tithes are but i see you understand the idea of giving.
My idea is it is not what we give in Church that counts as much as what we give to personally help some one in our every day life.
I also think it is right to give in Church, but its like a preacher said ( it is just as much a preachers responsibility to give to help others as it is others always giving to help the preacher ).