Prayer enables a Christian to receive God's promises as well as spiritual direction and power. To know truth, perform God's will, and overcome temptation, a Christian must read, study, meditate on, and learn God's Word. Christians all need the instruction, fellowship, group worship, and evangelistic outreach that a local church and pastor provide. Tithing began before the law of Moses and continues after it. Abraham and Jacob paid tithes.
Offerings are any additional freewill gifts.
Christians must worship in spirit and in truth. Fasting does not earn favors from God, nor is it meant to punish the body. Rather, it helps a person to discipline self, focus on priorities, and draw closer to the spiritual realm, and bind spiritual strongholds. Holiness of life. Pursuing holiness is as important as the new birth.