NT Guidelines: Give worshippfully

Cornelius is a great example from the Book of Acts who gave generously, but he also is noted that he worshipped God through giving.

The Macedonians would be another example from the Book of 2 Corinthians that Paul uses when taking about what sacrificial giving looks like.  Giving should be directed towards God before anyone else. The climax of the worship is "thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!"

Grace and gratitude belong
together like heaven and earth.
Grace evokes gratitude like the voice of an echo.
Gratitude follows grace like thunder lightning

We are speaking of the
grace of God who is God for man, and of the gratitude of man as his
response to this grace
....
The two belong together, so that only gratitude can
correspond to grace, and this correspondence cannot fail.
Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics , IV.1

Remember when Jesus reminded us that in the process of giving a gift we remember someone we needed to be reconciled with?  That is worship through giving.  Christian giving is not just something I do on my own.