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Thousand Burnt Offerings
[Christian Life]The thousand burnt offerings are the sacrifices Solomon offered at Gibeon (1 Kings 3:4). In Korean Protestant churches, the expression also names a devotional practice of praying and giving offerings on a thousand occasions or over a thousand days.
Ordination Offering
[Organization & Polity]An ordination offering is an offering made by a person receiving a church office, such as elder, kwonsa (a female lay office), or ordained deacon, on the occasion of the ordination service. The practice is widespread in Korean Protestant churches. Some regard it as an expression of gratitude, while others criticize it as a way of buying church office with money.
Offertory
[Worship & Rites]The offertory is the part of a worship service in which offerings and gifts are presented to God, or the act of presenting them. It is also commonly called the "offering time."
Altar of Burnt Offering
[Bible]The altar of burnt offering stood in the courtyard of the tabernacle and later of the Temple in Jerusalem. Burnt offerings and other animal sacrifices were burned on it. Because it was overlaid with bronze, it is also called the "bronze altar."
Hosea 6:6
[Bible Verses]A declaration that God desires steadfast love rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. Jesus quoted the verse twice in disputes with the Pharisees, and it is a key text on the relationship between worship and life, and between ritual and love.
Peace Offering
[Bible]The peace offering is an Old Testament sacrifice prescribed in Leviticus 3 and 7. Its fat was burned on the altar, and its meat was shared between the priests and the worshiper. It was offered as an expression of thanksgiving, in fulfillment of a vow, or as a freewill offering.
Trespass Offering
[Bible]The trespass offering was one of the Old Testament sacrifices. Through the offering of a ram, it made atonement for sins that caused loss with respect to holy things or a neighbor's property, and it required the offender to repay the original value plus one-fifth.
Drink Offering
[Bible]The drink offering was an Old Testament offering in which a beverage such as wine was poured out to God, usually alongside the burnt offering or the peace offering. In the New Testament, Paul compared his own devotion and death to a drink offering.
Genesis 4
[Bible]Genesis 4 recounts the offerings of Cain and Abel, the two sons of Adam and Eve; the first murder; Cain's punishment and descendants; and the birth of Seth. The chapter contains 26 verses.
Numbers 29
[Bible]Numbers 29 is a legal text that prescribes the kinds and numbers of offerings for the feasts of the seventh month: the day of blowing the trumpets (the first day), the Day of Atonement (the tenth day), the Feast of Tabernacles (seven days beginning on the fifteenth), and the solemn assembly on the eighth day.
Numbers 15
[Bible]Numbers 15 contains regulations for the offerings to be observed after entering Canaan, the heave offering of a cake from the first of the dough, the distinction between unintentional and deliberate sin, the punishment of a man who gathered sticks on the Sabbath, and the law concerning fringes on garments.
Building Fund Offering
[Christian Life]A building fund offering is an offering collected separately from general offerings to pay for constructing, purchasing, or renovating church buildings such as sanctuaries and education buildings.
Exodus 36
[Bible]Exodus 36 records how the people's freewill offerings exceeded what was needed, so that Moses ordered them to stop bringing more, and how Bezalel, Oholiab, and the other workers made the Tabernacle's curtains, coverings, boards, bars, veil, and door hanging.
Exodus 35
[Bible]In this chapter Moses restates the Sabbath ordinance and gathers offerings and workers for building the tabernacle. The people bring their offerings willingly, and Bezalel and Oholiab are introduced as the men appointed to carry out the work.
Numbers 28
[Bible]Numbers 28 sets out the kinds and quantities of offerings to be presented as the daily continual burnt offering and on the Sabbath, the new moon, Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and the Feast of Weeks. Together with chapter 29, it forms Israel's annual calendar of sacrifices.
1 Kings 3
[Bible]1 Kings 3 recounts how Solomon offers a thousand burnt offerings at Gibeon, asks God for wisdom in a dream and receives it, and then wisely settles a dispute between two women over a single child.
2 Chronicles 1
[Bible]2 Chronicles 1 recounts how Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings before the tabernacle of the congregation at Gibeon. When God appeared to him by night, Solomon asked for wisdom and knowledge to judge the people and received, in addition, a promise of riches and honor. The chapter then describes his chariots and wealth.
Conaniah
[People]Conaniah was the chief Levite who took charge of the offerings, tithes, and dedicated things gathered in the temple storerooms during the reign of King Hezekiah of Judah. He appears in 2 Chronicles 31:12–13.
Malachi 3:8–10
[Bible Verses]In this passage the prophet Malachi rebukes the people for withholding tithes and offerings, charging that they have "robbed God," and urges them to bring all the tithes into the storehouse. It is among the passages most frequently cited in teaching on tithing, particularly in Korean churches, and how it should be applied today is a matter of debate.
Non-Self-Supporting Church
[Organization & Polity]A non-self-supporting church is a church that cannot cover its pastor's living allowance and operating expenses from its members' offerings alone and therefore receives support from its denomination or from other churches. It is also called a "future self-supporting church."