"THE NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES TYPE OF GIVING WAS NOT TITHING OR MADE MANDATORY"

The grace type of giving that is clearly visible throughout the New Testament Scriptures and was openly practiced or demonstrated extensively by the early Church or the early Christians throughout the 1st century Church era was never based on the mandatory tithing in Malachi 3:8-11 which reads “Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ “In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it is ripe,” says the Lord Almighty (NIV Translation of the Bible) that was instituted for the children of Israel only under the law of Moses in the Old Testament Scriptures or the Old Covenant. 

The New Testament Scriptures type of giving was based on the scriptural directive from 2 Corinthians 9:7 which reads "Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver" from the NIV Translation of the Bible. The New Testament Bible type of grace-giving that was practiced openly and extensively throughout the early Church was not mandatory for Christians, it was not a 10% based that was known as tithing, it was not a divine curse if it was not done by a Christian, it was not an act of robbing God and it was never tied to any divine discipline coming from the devourers or to any overflowing divine blessings coming from the opened windows of heaven.