EP06 | Experiencing Fearless Generosity

We get to Monterey, and the week afterward there, the pastor comes up to me. I'm the brand new youth pastor, and he says, hey. Just wanna let you know somebody in our congregation came to me, heard your story, and they've paid for your transmission. And they gave us $3,200 to to reimburse for that. And it was mind blowing, not the the the money, but that five to ten years of what we'd now prepped for paying off Mhmm. Was just immediately taken taken away. [00:08:57] (27 seconds)  #GenerosityRelief

And on our way out there, our transmission on our car blows out, and it it literally was a $3,200 bill. So we pay the bill, and we go from no debt to $3,200 of debt overnight. And we'd worked to get rid of just that kind of debt before. Yeah. So now we know we've got five years of work ahead, maybe ten, because I don't make much to get out of that. [00:08:37] (20 seconds)  #UnexpectedHardship

as a collective community because together, this church, all of the folks that give here, we we give together, and then that resource becomes something that we can manage to affect lives tremendously. Here at Mosaic Church, besides the reality of discipling people in regularity, all the things that literally happen here from our students to our children to the the the adults in the space. And and as that discipleship takes place, then their lives in their neighborhoods with their folks, they are driven by a gospel centrality that allows their time and resources to be generous in their own stories. [00:00:49] (37 seconds)  #ChurchGivesTogether

the way Brooke and I think through it is that the majority of our stewarding generosity goes toward trusted spaces, organizations, the church, obviously. We we know that this is doing things that we do. And I I would always recommend that the the bulk of your generosity should go toward places that you've vetted, and and the church is one of those spaces. [00:10:57] (22 seconds)  #GiveToTrustedPlaces