Is the Modern Offering the Same as Biblical Almsgiving? - "I have never heard an evangelical sermon on almsgiving. Despite countless texts in the Hebrew Bible about generosity toward the poor, the example of the first Christians, and a long tradition of the practice, especially during Lent, I have rarely heard the word mentioned in my adult life as a Christian. 'Tithes and offerings,' yes of course, and many are the sermons I have heard about the generic subject of 'stewardship' or 'giving,' but rarely has anyone explained to me what 'almsgiving' means and how it relates to other kinds of giving practices ... 'Bible-believing' churches ... have gotten the subject of Christian generosity and serving others with our resources all jumbled up ... Almsgiving is not grounded in the need to support theocratic institutions, but on the specific call to “remember the poor.”

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