I really hate it when people are against tithing. A lot of people just use it as an excuse to financially contriute little if anything at all. Tithing is just giving 10% of your income and offerings are funds over and above the 10%. (I'm not referring to the 2nd tithes and 3rd tithes and the more complex tithing system practiced in the temple. Our taxes takes care of much of that). You can choose another method of funding if you really want to, but I don't see why one would need to go through the troble of that just so that they can call it something other than tithing.

I also think we need to be very careful when we say that something in Scripture no longer applies to us. Some things genuinely don't apply to us, but if we dismiss too many things as not applying to us, then we end up with Scripture that we profess to believe in, but has no power to change our lives becase we dismiss too much of what it teaches.