{"id":19804,"date":"2025-12-03T02:42:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=19804"},"modified":"2025-12-03T02:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T06:44:06","slug":"stephen-tong-on-tithing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=19804","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Tong on Tithing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tong: The tenth is God's. It is not offering. It is minimum. Christians should give, more willingly. Only the surplus after the tithe, is true offering. True love giving is not restricted by the text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\uff03\u70ba\u4f55\u65b0\u7d04\u6c92\u6709\u63d0\u5230\u300c\u5341\u5206\u4e4b\u4e00\u300d\u2753\u300c\u5341\u5206\u4e4b\u4e00\u300d\u662f\u5949\u737b\u55ce\u2753\u300c\u5341\u5206\u4e4b\u4e00\u300d\u662f\u8ab0\u7684\u2753\uff08\u5e0c\u4f2f\u4f86\u66f8\u8981\u7406\u554f\u7b54 \u7b2c904\u554f\uff09\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jndNoNNcjdY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tong: The tenth is God's. It is not offering. It is minimum. Christians should give, more willingly. Only the surplus after the tithe, is true offering. True love giving is not restricted by the text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19806,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19804\/revisions\/19806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}