God took the focus off giving a tithe in the early church because He wants His people to ask themselves a new question. I think the question that Jesus drives us to ask pretty often is, what in this world that we live in, is yours?” One of the differences between the Old Testament and New Testament is the Great Commission. And, the New Testament church is fundamentally people, that are like missionaries. The implications of this then is that the spiritual hope that Jesus brought to us is to be extended by his church to the world.