Emmanuel Church
Generosity 101: Week 3
Take Aways from Last Week:
TAKE AWAY: We are to be good stewards of our time as we operate in free will to choose how we will spend our finite number of days on earth.
TAKE AWAY: Generosity is also about our generosity with the Spiritual Gift(s) we’ve been given and the other talents we possess.
TAKE AWAY: Even our attitude belongs to God. We can choose to have it reflect His presence in our lives as we submit it to Him.
1 Timothy 6:9-10 NIV
A. Soft Secular World View in the Church
- Methodists 1.6% of income to the Church (9th of 12 denominations)
- Mormons - 5.2% to the Church HIGHEST PERCENTAGE
-65% of Christians have debt beyond their mortgage
-Car payments are 63.1% of household debt (more than mortgage)
- How much debt do people carry (Excluding mortgage debt):
An average of $25,000 - $50,000
- General Population Spends:
$370 Million on pet costumes a year
$5 Billion on entertaining ring tones a year
TAKE AWAY: The Church is called to a higher standard and greater understanding of generosity when it comes to money management both corporately and individually.
B. So What About Jesus?
Luke 12:13-21 NIV
Matthew 6:19-20 NIV
TAKE AWAY: Knowing that stewardship and generosity were important to Jesus should make them important to us.
Malachi 3:6-12 NIV
Matthew 23:23 NIV
God looks at the tithe as the floor, not the ceiling, but we tend to see the tithe as the maximum we’re to give.
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