Sam Adeyemi, a world-renowned prosperity preacher based in Nigeria, who previously taught that tithing was a requirement for Christians to allow God’s blessings to flourish in their lives, stunned followers and critics in a recent message when he declared the requirement had expired because Jesus freed them from the practice.
“So I say again, tithing as practiced under the Law of Moses as a regulation has expired. No Christian should feel guilty for not paying tithes. No Christian should be made to feel guilty for not paying tithes,” Adeyemi said in a hotly debated video clip posted online.
Adeyemi is the founder and senior pastor of the more than 20,000-member Daystar Christian Centre, which is one of the fastest growing churches in Africa.
Quoting Romans 8: 1-4, the influential preacher who challenged leaders at Willow Creek’s 2017 Global Leadership Summit to build hope into the next generation, defended his new position on tithing.
“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of…
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