Wealth and Poverty: NT guidelines: Give

Saturday, 7 January 2017

NT guidelines: Give

In the New Testament, there are no exceptions - the expectations are that all will give, even though our amounts will be different.

Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. - 2 Corinthians 9:7

It is a sad statistic that four out of ten people attending church give nothing, and another two or three out of ten give next to nothing.

Guidelines for Giving

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We law-abiding high-living consumers, satisfy our self-indulgent whims and appetites for comfort

or pleasure through clearly superior means--we buy ever-larger houses and fill them with ever-more goodies. "And

where is the harm in that?" we ask, not seeking or wanting an answer. We deny the obvious truth that there is always a

more Christian use for money that is spent self-indulgently. We even have the audacity to tell ourselves and others

that we "earn" or "deserve" the goodies that give us comfort and pleasure. We seem to have little difficulty divorcing

wealth, materialism, and self-indulgent consumption from serious contemplation of Christian morality. Randy Alcorn