Looks like Pastor Creflo Dollar has changed his mind on the issue of tithing.
According to Black Enterprise – In a new video, the controversial 30,000-member World Changers Church International preacher sounds like he is turning over a new leaf and urged his congregants to throw away every book, tape, and video he’s sold to them on the topic of tithing, in a Sunday sermon titled, “The Great Misunderstanding.”
“TODAY I STAND IN HUMILITY TO CORRECT SOME THINGS I’VE TAUGHT FOR YEARS AND BELIEVED FOR YEARS,” HE SAYS IN THE VIDEO.
Dollar made the daunting confession about his misguided understanding of tithing, while citing Romans 6:14 in the Holy Bible to corroborate his claim that Christians “now live under grace and not the laws of the Old Testament.”
The prosperity pastor now says he’s been all wrong about his tithing beliefs, which by definition tithing means to give a portion (10%) of your income as an offering to your local church.
Dollar explains his newfound stance, saying tithing is Old Testament teaching and is no longer pertinent for New Testament believers.
In the video at point 12:26, he explains that some from the Old Testament church have taken the 10% and applied it as the recommended minimum for Christians in their giving. But Dollar says the manufactured 10% figure is all wrong. He quotes Romans 6: 14: “For sin shall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under the law, but under the grace.”
“You are under grace not under laws,” he said.
Dollar is changing direction, doing a 180 in his trajectory of thought, years after he took fire for asking his parishioners to donate $300 each so he could buy a $65 million Gulfstream G650 jet for doing ministry abroad.
As noted by CNN, the jet “comes with two Rolls-Royce engines, high-speed Internet and two multichannel satellites and allows for a four-and-a-half-hour commute from New York to Los Angeles.”
In Dollar’s ministry, he uses a term called “Honor Giving” which is akin to tithing, the Washington Post reports.
Many have accused Creflo of enriching himself “on the backs of credulous, lower-income worshippers.”
First it was Benny Hinn who in 2019 changed his theology and renounced the prosperity message. Now it's Creflo Dollar in 2022 ordering his followers to destroy every book and tape he has ever written & preached on tithing because it's not biblical. Wawoo!pic.twitter.com/ILa0Cg0YF2
— Yinka Chukwuemeka Ogunnubi (@yinkanubi) July 4, 2022
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Dr Creflo Dollar says his teachings on tithing are wrong. He realized believers are not supposed to tithe. But give generously and cheerfully "2 corr 9:7" pic.twitter.com/4DiCePSj5e
— ᴜɴɪϙᴜᴇ ɪᴠᴀɴ ᴍᴜɢɪ ʜᴀ ✌ (@UniqueIvan6) July 2, 2022
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Imagine thinking of yourself as the head of a Christian household, attending Creflo Dollar’s church, weekly, and after 15 years of faithful tithing, being told suddenly, “tithing is no longer biblical, my bad”.
No refund and said pastor owns a jet with a net worth of 30 mil.
— Red Carpet Wellness (@redcarpetkal) July 4, 2022
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Creflo Dollar apologized for all the years he taught tithing incorrectly and said religion is sustained by two things: fear and guilt.
I’m going to watch the entire sermon today but it is refreshing any time a pastor—especially a cishet Black male one—apologizes.
— Candice Marie Benbow (@CandiceBenbow) July 4, 2022
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For a world famous man of God to openly and publicly admit he has been wrong on a particular doctrine, is a breath of fresh air!
Especially on a doctrine as divisive as “Tithing”.
I still disagree with some of his doctrine; salute Pst. Creflo Dollar for this show of humility.
— B. Russell (@B_RussO) July 4, 2022
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