Sunday Morning Stickup: What Your Pastor Doesn't Want You to Know about Tithes a Must-Read for Anyone Who Pays 10% Tithes or Gives Money to a

by David Lee

Sunday Morning Stick Up What your Pastor doesn't want you to know about tithes A Must Read for anyone who pays 10% tithes or gives money to a Leader, Pastor, Charity, Non-Profit Organization or Church There is an undertow of frustration finely hidden beneath the delicate fabric of today's Christian experience. We call her Church, The Bride of Christ. Forlornly, she looks nothing like the church of yesterday. Conflicted in her existence and compromised in her expressions, she bears the name of the heavenly father, but oftentimes demonstrates the characteristics of His adversary. She hurts wounds and defrauds as many as who hope to receive healing and help from her hands. 2000 years ago, Jesus confronted her leaders and revealed two very significant observations as He stood in her courts armed with only a whip & passion. SUNDAY MORNING STICKUP, is that whip and passion of today. Jesus's Public Confrontation * Evaluation #1 - My house shall be called a house of prayer * Evaluation #2 - You have made it a den of thieves These accusations, once heralded by the savior in her sacred courts more than 2000 years ago, have manifested themselves into full blown, undeniable crimes committed in broad daylight. Worst of all, this stickup takes place like clockwork, primarily on Sunday mornings. Star struck, many have given in to larger than life personalities, and have cast aside the genuine leading of God's Spirit. She (the church) exhibits signs of swelling to the exorbitant totals of 10,000 to 30,000 plus members all gathered together in one place, but real growth escapes her. Her pews are filled with former members of other churches as opposed to newly converted sinners. Sunday Morning Stickup reveals that there are no scriptures that support Christians paying tithes. After embracing this scripturally guided tour through this important subject, you will realize, you do not have to feel guilty about not paying tithes. As modern ministry redefines herself throughout the world, focusing on souls has been replaced with a focus on $.O.U.L.$. ($atisfying Our Unrestrained Lust for $tuff). The term for this is Lasciviousness and can be found in St. Jude 1:4 For years, the preachers would tell us "You must give God your life." Today that message has been drowned out by "God wants you to be wealthy, but first, you must give Him your best offering." You have been told that paying tithes is of the utmost importance to being blessed by God. But ask yourself, "What do I really know about tithing?" As you ponder this thought, you are beginning to realize that many have talked about tithing, but no one has really ever taken the time to teach you specific truths about it. SUNDAY MORNING STICKUP will teach you these truths. After reading this book you will be able to answer the following What is the true essence of tithing? Is tithing required? Am I cursed if I do not tithe? Does it really take millions of dollars to win souls to Christ? Is it ok for the Pastor to live lavishly while his members struggle with the decisions of paying bills vs. buying food? Is church "Big Business"? If my family is in need, do we qualify for assistance from our church? Is it ok to use my tithe to help those who are in need? LET YOUR JOURNEY TO FREEDOM BEGIN! Author, David Lee

180 pages, Paperback

First published March 21, 2013

Reviews

[Frank · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a partial review of the book. I'm in the midst of reading it and all I can say is that David Lee stumbled onto a revalation of the tithe that has been hidden since the sixth century. The author takes a theological position that Christ became the last final perfect tithe for us on the cross. After spending three years studying the tithe, I personally know for a fact that David Lee is correct about the tithe not being money but food. Reading the book with an open mind will ultimately cause one to have to make a theological decision about what is truth and what is false concerning age old question of tithing for New Covenant believers and followers Yeshua. David Lee does not back down from stating that Christ is our tithe and that no believer should be afraid or live in fear because Christ is the tithe not your money. This book will challenge you to study if you are open. If not, you'll continue to wear colored glasses concerning the tithe and not see Christ as the tithe. He argues that the tithe doctrine is so powerful it has rendered some powerless to question its authenticity. David Lee questions the mondern tithe doctrine and then procedes to dismantle it piece by piece. David Lee issues a challenge to all pastors to come clean about the tithe and put the focus back on people not money so the Church can florish like it was meant too. The book gives an inside look at preacher greed and discusses the causes of ministry excess and how it impact poor people in the church. If I had to say anything from a critical point of view, I wish the book delved into more of the mechanics and function of the tithe system of Israel/Hebrew people as a whole from a cultural perspective. Overall so far, this book will free you from mandatory tithing to become a freewill cheeful giver and that might not sit will with some pastors and could get some people put out of their church. This book is worth reading. I look forward to finishing it and finishing my review. This book is a clarion call that you do not have to allow yourself to be stuck up every Sunday morning because Christ is the tithe, the final tithe fullfillment which free us to give from the heart.

[Lee Harmon · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. –Matthew 21:13

This book is a passionate plea to quit supporting a prosperity gospel. Tithing is no longer scriptural, and your tithes aren’t used in a scriptural manner anyway. David Lee wrote the book “out of obedience to a mandate from God on my life,” and I can’t emphasize the word “passionate” enough. David has had it with misuse of money. He misses the good old days of revivals and cozy corner churches, not megachurches and Rolexes. Man, what power the church had back then, when the Spirit ruled the house! REAL laying on hands, REAL healings. Thank you, Jesus!

The downside of this passion is that it manifests itself in condescending reader participation (exercises and instructions and pleas to read the book over and over), and David sometimes comes across as preachy or as a bit of an alarmist. So the book’s atmosphere didn’t really gel with me.

Yet the topics were worth reading. The New Testament shows no evidence whatsoever of tithing, and in fact, Paul boasted that he provided the gospel without pay, and supported himself by working on the side. Paul, of course, had no church building. Moreover, tithing in the Old Testament wasn’t about money; it was about goods, which would feed the priests and the hungry. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t give freely of our time, money and goods! It just means obligatory, guilt-inducing tithing no longer has a place.

So what changed from the Old Testament to the New Testament? Jesus. Tithing in the O.T. is symbolic of Jesus, who would offer his life on the cross as a living tithe. See Hebrews chapters 7 through 10. An interesting theology, which I hadn’t considered before.

So if you don’t find the style off-putting, read the book and share in David’s indignation.

[F. Glen Skidmore · Rating 4 out of 5]

After writing my own book, "The Magna Carta Of Tithing", I wanted to learn all the other information I may have missed by reading other authors on the same subject. So, I bought the "Sunday Morning Stickup" as an e-book and read it carefully. David Lee covers this subject from a pastoral perspective, working from the bottom upward, with the premise that "if the fruit is bad, then the whole tree can't be good." He covers a lot of ground in the harmful effects of the tithe doctrine, from the in-equitable distributions of wealth and burdens, to the shallow church relationships caused by the abusive preachers and their elite "cliques." Lee found the same conclusions that I did, that the tithe is an obsolete relic from the old covenant, that it never included money, and that two years out of three the tithes were part of a celebration by the 'tither' when they ate their tithes in God's presence at the Temple. Lee does not go into depth about the definitions or implications of the Old Testament directives on tithing, which my book does do. His unique perspective as a pastor really illuminates the causes and effects on the people from the tithing practices. He even noted how the same people who were faithful tithers often were not able to receive financial assistance from the church when they fell on hard times, while the clergy lived lavish lifestyles unfettered by financial concerns.
"Sunday Morning Stickup" is about 182 pages long, and I liked most of what he wrote. One exception though, was his teaching that "Jesus was the last tithe", which eliminated the need to continue our tithing. If Jesus was "God's Tithe", then John The Baptist should have said, "Behold, the Tithe of God that takes away the sin of the world!" What sin did any tithe ever "take away?" Also, John 3:16 should then read, "For God so loved the world that He tithed one of His sons...", meaning, that there were 9 brothers of Jesus that "dodged the draft!" Of course, Jesus IS the Only Begotten Son Of God! I believe this is a symantic error, easily fixed by using the word "offering" instead of the word "tithe." I further believe that what Lee is trying to communicate is Romans 8:32, "He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?" Meaning, if Christ himself was free for the receiving, why would God charge anything more to receive something less than Christ? It's a powerful statement that Lee did not directly make in his book. Lee also left out the 15th chapter of Acts which explicitly tells us we are free from the Law of Moses. At times, Lee's book is a little condescending or preachy with exercises for readers to perform. He is also very focused on evangelism, which is a good thing if you have a church that won't bankrupt your new converts! I give this book a 4.3 star rating out of 5 and recommend it to anyone for reading.

[Shannon Meyer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well written. As a life long church goer, this book was extremely eye opening. We should all pay more attention to the money we give the church