NT Guidelines: Give regularly

It's this hit and miss approach to giving that the NT wants to avoid --

On the first day of every week, each of you is to put aside and save whatever extra you earn, so that collections need not be taken when I come. - 1 Corinthians 16:2

So we are not spending what we should have been giving.

Stewardship is not a once-a-year consideration, but a week-to-week or month-to-month commitment requiring discipline and consistency.  When the church wants to get involved in a worthy need-meeting project --

...now finish doing it, so that your eagerness may be matched by completing it according to your means. - 2 Corinthians 8:11

The New Testament Pattern of “Giving”

God's Guidelines for Giving

Giving God’s Way

The New Testament Church—Its Finances

Ten Principles of Christian Giving

NT Guidelines: Give generously

When a grateful woman anointed Jesus with a costly ointment, some observers rebuked her.

But Jesus said, “Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has performed a good service for me. - Mark 14:6

 Some people may consider generous giving as fanatical, but Jesus called it love.  In fact, He was so moved by the woman's giving that He vowed --

"Truly I tell you, wherever the good news[a] is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in remembrance of her.” - Mark 14:9

Those who are more calculating usually give less.




Guidelines for Giving
The New Testament Standard of Giving

God's Guidelines for Giving

Giving God’s Way

Biblical Guidelines for Giving

Guidelines on Giving

Tithing in the Bible - Is Tithing for the New Testament Believer?

The New Testament Pattern of “Giving”

 

Ten Principles of Christian Giving