THE TCP OF CHURCH TITHING

INTRODUCTION The TCP of Church Tithing is an integrated curricular system for creating a God-focused relationship driven culture of Church tithing in the local church. The TCP of Church tithing Program Kit gives Church Ministers the pedagogical tools for creating the God-focused relationship driven culture of Church tithing with the optimism of bolstering the congregation’s persuasions in the giving of their tithes. It prepares Church Ministers with the principles and the philosophical importance for each component of the TCP of Church tithing, and how each aspect is expected to affect the congregation in getting them to diligently connect their tithing with a spiritual communing with God before they present their tithes at church. The TCP of Church tithing stands out as an ingenious curricular approach in educationally centering the congregation, to have a devotional interaction with God, as a pursuit of ensuring that their tithing count for fulfillments in the five Christian persuasions for Church tithing in their lives. It is in this ingenious curricular approach with the TCP of Church tithing that is aimed to give Church Ministers the optimism of bolstering their congregation’s persuasions in the giving of their tithes. And to utilize it for the optimization of the spiritual and financial vitality of their local church. Essentially, the TCP of Church tithing is a programmatic interlock of teaching, communicating and the practicing of tithing designed to bring members of the Church congregation to pursue and to have fulfillments in the five Christian persuasions for Church tithing that are derived from the tithing of Abraham to Melchizedek. These five Christian persuasions for Church tithing are as follows: While each component is designed to affect the congregation with specific results in the overall scheme and outcomes of the pedagogy and the practice of tithing in the local church, the roll out of the TCP of Church tithing program is to be simultaneously delivered as a unified set of education in the local church. From the onset, the Teaching must be immediately followed by the Communication programming, and without delay introduce the congregation to the Tithing to Grow in Christ Devotional Workshop. Thus, the programmatic interlock of the TCP of Church tithing comprises a planned coordination of teaching, communicating, and the practicing of tithing to create a God-focused relationship driven culture of Church tithing that would center the parishioners to receive fulfillments in the five Christian persuasions for Church tithing. Implicit in the parishioners receiving fulfilments in the five Christian persuasions for Church tithing is the cultivation of their interpersonal relationship with God to grow in their trust, love, and holiness to Him. So that the congregation ends up with a formed habit of preparing and giving their tithes at church out of a daily spiritual communion with God. The nature of the daily spiritual communion with God around the giving of the tithes is the same way we apply ourselves to having a quiet time or personal devotional time with Him—only this time, the devotion is in the context of the five Christian persuasions for giving the tithes at church as illustrated with Diagram 4. The over-arching goal of the TCP of Church tithing is therefore, to bring about a formed habit of tithing in the members of the congregation that flows out of their loving hearts for God, with fulfillments in the five Christian persuasions for Church tithing as the goal, etched in their minds and hearts. This is the formed habit of tithing that is to generate the God-focused relationship driven culture of Church tithing in the local church. As an educational scheme, the TCP of Church tithing is tooled out of the Church tithing foundational concepts that God modeled through the tithing of Abraham to Melchizedek. These foundational concepts of Church tithing comprise the core principles, the Christian persuasions, and the rubrics of God for Church tithing discussed in the book, Church Tithing: A Handbook for Pastors. It is highly recommended as a necessary starting place for pastors to get well acquainted with these fundamental concepts before getting into the use of the TCP of Church tithing. In creating a God-focused relationship driven culture of Church tithing, the TCP of Church tithing readily puts the practice of tithing in the local Church into alignment with the Rubrics of God for Church tithing. The Rubrics of God for Church tithing are the four basic things that He benchmarked in Abraham’s tithing to Melchizedek to classify what would constitute the practice of Church tithing. The Rubrics of God for Church tithing plainly means that Church tithing is not only in the giving of the tithes, but the sum of four essential elements illustrated with the following diagram: The Rubrics of God for Church Tithing The credibility of Church tithing is in these four things taking place simultaneously, when we are about Church tithing. One without the others discredits the credibility of the nature of the practice of Church tithing that God had set up through Abraham. We must do it right. When we do it right, we will get the right results.