Is Faith Promise biblical?

Its the same in my church, I don't participate in it but many good brothers in Christ do. The whole idea is to promise a certain amount that God would give to you as you exercise your faith, this amount you promise is said to come to you out of God's pocket, thus why you need that faith that God would give you the money to meet your said promise, this amount is also above the tithe but before the freewill offering...

The way it is taught from scripture is simply the gathering of proof texts to build a case for it. Bottom line, I can't see it was taught in the NT but than again, I don't believe the NT teaches the tithe either, so.....

Darren

 

It's another aberration of missionism.
Missionism has come up with a lot of techniques and teachings to keep the missions going, and many of them are extra-Scriptural, from going the rounds of churches to elicit promised supports to already established "mission churches" abroad, to faith promises such as the one you are describing, to outright obligating churches and members to support missions they have not sent out but are those of churches they "fellowship" with.
These unscriptural and extra scriptural practices have even affected many Primitive Baptist churches, and I quit pastoring sometime ago over differences in these fields.
The scriptural way is if a man feels he has been called of and by God to preach in a certain geographical area, then he is to leave immediately, trusting God to provide and prepare everything he needs for that call, and not dilly dally waiting for pledges or education.
If the church he is from is burdened by the Lord to send him financial or material support, then it is that church and only that church that is under obligation, not other churches, and the Lord will provide the ways and means even for that church to support its missionary.
If other churches wish to help then they are to send their aid directly to the recipient, and not through some mission board, or website, or anyone else, or they can send their help through the church from which the Lord separated His man.
And the only scriptural means of raising funds is through cheerfully given offerings, given as the Lord prospered the giver, not because of some "faith" promise.
Sure, there are a lot of those on these forums that have different ideas and will probably take me to task on these things, but that's what I believe Scripture teaches both in letter and in principle.

 

I see nothing Biblical about making promises about the future to give of what one does not yet possess ownership. To me, this is a form of "tempting God" which God forbids.

I do not see anything resembling "Faith Promise" in the Bible. What I see is people giving generously, abundantly, and cheerfully out of their poverty and of their own sustenance. I do not see people giving out of debt or on "lay away."

One could try to give a recurring amount, but I do not think it is wise or Biblical to make a vow to God to give of a claim against the future of which one does not control.

 

I believe most of the reason for a 'faith promise commitment is that the pastor may have some idea of how much he can commit to the missionaries you support.

 

I think this is much of the reason. We don't do faith promise, but when I was part of churches that did, that was much of the reasoning. If people didn't want to do it, they didn't.

 

All giving in the NT church was freewill simple as that. I have heard hour long tithing sermons and hour long faith promise sermons, in both cases there is an attempt to distingish these biblically from an "offering" but still pass them off as the same class as freewill giving. I'm sceptical as to the methods used in trying to preach them from the bible and still have "offerings" above both. Bear in mind that these are supposed to be given before one pays their own expenses as well.

Anyway, I just can't see that anything other than 1 freewill offering can be preached for christians today. Sure you could make a case for them, its just not a very good one.

Darren