Living Generously: The Acts Church's Model for Giving

Here's the truth. Jesus Christ died on the cross in our place to the glory of the father and because of that, we get to have a relationship with him. That's a gospel. People need to know that. People don't just need to know that, hey, if you give your life to Jesus, all your problems will go away. No, they won't. But when you repent of your sin and run towards Jesus, he'll change your life. We gotta speak the truth to people because that's what makes an impact that makes a difference. [01:22:55] (31 seconds)  #GospelTruth

Here's the thing. When you go outside today and someone is is outside and they say, man, hey, can I have $10 for some lunch? Watch this. Pay attention. And and then god says to you, in your in your mind and in your heart, god says, give them $10 and you say, no, god. I don't know what they're gonna do with that. They might go buy something they shouldn't have. And and then then god has to remind you. I don't know if god ever reminds you of stuff. He reminds me of some stuff sometimes. He didn't ask you to give them $10 for their benefit. He asked you to give him $10 because he's working on you. It don't matter what they spend it on. [01:17:58] (41 seconds)  #GiveWithoutJudgment

But it's a transition, guys, when God changes your heart to say, look, every vehicle you have is mine. Every dollar you have, that's all my money that I'm just letting you hold for me. So therefore, as you look at your money that you're holding for the father, you have to say, okay, god, since I'm just holding your money, what do you want me to do with it? [01:13:04] (25 seconds)  #HoldingGodsResources

When you give a gift to the church financially, when you're being generous, man, I'm gonna give my dollar 58 and we've we've been there. I'm gonna give my dollar 58 to the church, and I'm gonna trust that the leadership of the church will do with that what they are called by God to do with that. That is a huge responsibility for me as a pastor, for Topher who handles our finances for our elders all over the room. That is a huge responsibility for us to say to you, thank you for trusting us with that. [01:15:14] (28 seconds)  #TrustChurchStewardship

I was blown away. Tiffany was blown away. We love the idea that we would be sitting there in shelter and just, man, we're just here to give you a warming station and he says like, no. No. That ain't why we're here. You might get warm while we're talking but we're gonna talk about Jesus. We had a young man give his life to Christ on Thursday night of that time in the shelter, one night of the week. We have a young lady now coming to church with us living with one of our people growing and moving forward. Why? Not because we gave him shelter, because we talked about Jesus. [01:21:44] (34 seconds)  #WarmthAndWitness

We talked about that last week. They come out of jail. They've been beaten. They've been told to stop talking about Jesus and they go to the house and say, praise the lord. He he they beat us. We're talking about Jesus. Give us boldness, bother. Didn't pray for comfort. They didn't pray for less threats against them. They didn't pray for protection. They said, god, make us bold so that we will never stop talking about you. And here's what we learn. The power and the boldness comes from being filled with holy spirit. [01:19:32] (30 seconds)  #SpiritGivesBoldness

They were not praying for boldness to go share their political opinion. They were not praying for boldness to talk about their sports team and their jersey and their team and their and their win or their loss. They were not doing that. They were not praying for boldness So, they could go give their opinion. They're praying for boldness to preach the gospel. And you and I have to understand that because we really we get really really bold about some things that are worthless. [01:20:34] (35 seconds)  #BoldForTheGospel

These people believed. Everything they had belong to god. And they were only holding it in trust until god needed to use it. What does that mean? That means my mindset should be, god, thank you for letting me hold your money. What would you like me to do with it? [01:10:19] (27 seconds)  #KingdomStewardship