About this book
What if tithing was never meant to survive the cross?
For generations, believers have been taught that tithing is a New Covenant command, that first fruits means surrendering their very first salary, and that giving guarantees financial breakthrough. Pastor Dr Benjamin Olusola Ajibade was one of those believers, until hardship exposed what his years of faithful giving had actually bought him in the eyes of the man collecting it.
In Beyond the Tithe, Ajibade returns to Scripture itself, verse by verse, to ask a question most pulpits never raise: what did these passages actually mean, to their actual audience, in their actual context?
The book examines what the Old Covenant tithe and first fruits actually were and why neither was ever money, why Jesus mentioned tithing only twice and never to his own disciples, the true context behind Malachi 3:8-10 and Luke 6:38, and how the offering has displaced the sermon in structure, time, and priority.
Drawing on decades of pastoral experience and his own personal story, this book confronts the misquoted verses, the manufactured offering categories, and the marketplace culture that Jesus himself twice drove out, and offers a way back to giving as Scripture actually describes it.
