Last Sunday at Orlando Grace Church, we continued our short break from the gospel of John, and Pastor Curt delivered a sermon on giving. It was one of the best I have heard on the topic. It’s inspiring to see someone who labors and wrestles diligently to rightly handle the Scriptures each week. Praise God for his Word!

Although it may seem self-serving for me to publish a post on giving while Nicole and I are in this season of raising a financial team of partners, my aim here is not to talk anyone into giving to our ministry. My aim has very little to do with our ministry at all, except I hope to encourage those who have joined our team and worship God by giving to Him through our ministry. I also hope to challenge everyone (myself included) to continue to worship God by the giving of their money during this and every other season of life. Those of you who read this blog on a regular basis (if there is anyone) know that we post links and thoughts on all different topics, and I would hate to not share a beneficial resource simply because of our current season in life.

The passage of Scripture that Pastor Curt ’expositopically’ preached from was 2 Corinthians 9:6-9. The theme of his message was:

Because giving of our means results in huge blessing to us as givers, we should aim to excel in the grace of giving to the Lord’s work as followers of Jesus Christ.

 For those of you who fear this was a message derived from a prosperity gospel ideology, it was far from it!

Four Components of Gracious Giving
Pastor Curt highlighted four components of the kind of giving that hugely blesses the giver:

1. There is a principle to recall universally. (verse 6)
2. There is a purpose to resolve voluntarily. (verse 7)
3. There is a power to reckon confidently. (verse 8 )
4. There is a praise to receive eternally. (verse 9)

I love alliteration!

The link to the sermon is not yet on the web. I’ll post it once it becomes available. Definitely check back in a few days! Then, come here on Sunday at 10:45 am!

—– UPDATED —–

The sermon is up on the web. You can find it here! Thanks, John!