For I desire and delight in [steadfast] loyalty [faithfulness in the covenant relationship], rather than sacrifice, And in the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. Hos 6:6 AMP

For it is love that I seek, and not sacrifice; knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. Hosea 6:6 ISV

I want your constant love, not your animal sacrifices. I would rather have my people know me than burn offerings to me. Hosea 6:6

I’m after love that lasts, not more religion. I want you to know God, not go to more prayer meetings. Hosea‬ ‭6‬:‭6 MSG‬‬.

There is an unhealthy emphasis on religious obligations and money today in the church while a lot of people are not even grounded in the gospel of the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the provisions that God has made for us in salvation. There is still a great pressure for performance, a transactional approach to God which stops people from embracing the fullness of what God has provided in Christ.

Many are far from God today because of the burdens of religion that they cannot meet placed upon them by phariseeic church leaders. The burdens that Christ intended to do away with seems to have been tripled by the traditions of men. The veil that was torn from top to bottom
Is being sewn back by church people.

The message of the Bible is Christ and the perfect salvation he has provided for us. It is REDEMPTION of the purchase possession (which Christ fully paid for) not TRANSACTION or purchase of things by money paid by men. It has nothing to do with our works, but our faith, it is not premised on giving but on our receiving, God desire’s relationship not religious obligation & oblations.

It is more blessed to give than to receive does not apply to salvation. In salvation we are not givers, we are receivers. Jesus did a complete work and our blessedness is in receiving of his grace. “Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish! We don’t play the major role. If we did, we’d probably go around bragging that we’d done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.”
‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭2‬:‭7‬-‭10‬ ‭MSG‬‬

There is an unhealthy emphasis on giving to God in our days which you won’t see in the Bible, it has come to such level of ridiculousness where men openly say God will not bless how own people except they bring him tithe of their income.
There is nothing wrong with giving as response to God’s grace but to aspire to please God by giving is not only transactional but demeaning. God does not demand money from anyone, he is not a beggar. We are privileged to be able to give of money for church administrative purposes (rent, building, paying ministers, giving to the poor etc)

We are already blessed in Christ, the curse of the law and toiling has been taken off, we work, we prosper because we are already blessed and then having recjeved graciously and the love of God is she’s abroad in our heart, we have hilarious generosity towards the body of Christ, the advancement of the gospel, the remuneration of ministers, it is not a legalistic or transactional giving to get anything out of God.

For the tithe advocates, the problem with your emphasis on tithe is that you are shifting the focus away from Christ. You apparently cannot preach the finished works of Christ and then balance it with the legalistic demand of money for the blessing that Christ has already given for free. Melchizedek didn’t beg Abraham for tithe, he didn’t harass Abraham with a
curse, he came with the blessing and Abraham has a response of tithe. The New Testament has no percentage of giving. The people who
Advocate that the church in Jerusalem sold their properties and brought money to the Apostles feet, that does not become a doctrine of either 10% or 100%. It is generosity, cheerful giving, nobody compelled them, they responded to God’s grace.
The gospel of Jesus is SALVATION NOT TITHE-VATION.
God gave us all he has to give, whatever we give now is a generous response not a demanded obligation.

“We all live off his generous abundance, gift after gift after gift. We got the basics from Moses, and then this exuberant giving and receiving, This endless knowing and understanding— all this came through Jesus, the Messiah.
‭‭John‬ ‭1‬:‭16‬-‭17 MSG‬‬