Should Tithe and Offerings Be Based On 10% of Net Earnings or Gross Earnings?
It depends what you mean by ‘should’. If you choose to practice tithing, then it should be ten percent of your gross income, otherwise you are honouring the government above God by paying Caesar’s protion first. You may choose not to tithe because Christians are not under the law and may tithe or not freely. Galatians 3:10 & 13 says: For as many as are out of works of the Law, these are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the Book of the Law, to do them…Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone having been hanged on a tree”). This freedom from the curse includes the curse mentioned in Malachi 3:9 against those who failed to tithe under the Law. Nevertheless, tithing both pre-dates the law by several centuries and continued under the New Covenant as evidenced in Hebrews 7:5-9. ‘And truly they who are of the sons of Levi, who receive the offic
