True Generosity: The Heart Behind Giving
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1. "I share that with you because, honestly, that was a moment of generosity. It was a moment of generosity because my giving cost me something. It was sacrificial. I didn't give out of the surplus of shoes that I had. I didn't give out of the wealth that I had. I gave out of exactly what I had that was mine and provisional to me. And it cost me something. I had to sacrifice something in order to give it to this person to operate and walk in generosity." [10:22] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "If you want to know if something is you being generous or if you are walking in generosity, my question to you would be, when you gave it, did it hurt you? When you gave it, did it cost you something? When you gave it, did you have a moment of debate saying, God, is there another way that you can do this? Because true generosity is indicative of the posture of your heart. And also on the base of it being sacrificial." [11:07] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "The question that I would present to you is, that I have asked myself, why did this poor widow give? Her very last two coins to the temple courts. Scripture isn't clear. Scripture doesn't indicate. There was no commentary that suggests why she did. But I can only speculate why she gave. She probably gave out of a response to the goodness of God. Wait. How is God good in her situation? She's poor. Her husband's dead. She's a widow. She's probably childless because it says she's poor, so that means she doesn't have a son who is helping her." [14:28] (40 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "You know what the problem is with the church today? Is that we only associate God being good with the blessings he gives us. God is good when the medical report is good. God is good when I got the raise. God is good when I put a ring on it. God is good when the money's good. God is good when the business is good. But when the business is bad, God's not too good. When the medical report is bad, God's not too good. When the medical report comes back and I don't really like it, God is not good. We've associated the goodness of God with the blessings that are in your hands." [15:13] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "Can you say that he's still good in your life in difficult situations? Can you still worship in the midst of hard times? Can you still walk in obedience in the midst of hard times, knowing that he is everything? That he is a good God? That he's always been good? He doesn't stop being good. He continues to be good. Because I want you to know something, that if God did nothing more than send his son to die on a cross and be resurrected on the third day for you, if he did nothing more than that, that very act was good enough in itself and undeserved on our part. But yet he gives it to us." [17:49] (37 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
6. "Christianity would have faded away? Without generous Christians? Christianity would have faded without, go to the verse, Acts chapter two. When we did ingredients of a healthy church, we looked at this. This is the early church. This is what happened after the church gets birthed, right? Peter's in the balcony. He's preaching the gospel. 3,000 people get saved and now they got to do something with these people. They got to have a church and go to lunch. This is what it said. They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship and to breaking of bread and prayer." [20:35] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
7. "Imagine what this church would look like if we all chose to live generously amongst each other. Imagine what it would look like if we all chose to live generously amongst each other. Imagine how we would take care of each other. Imagine what the onlookers in the world would think about the actual true church when we start being the actual true church. Nobody wants to go to your stupid church because it's new or it's cool because it has an LED wall. They want to go because they see something different. And they want to see it in you and they want to see it in us and they want to see it in me." [23:04] (34 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
8. "The beauty and the importance of generosity is that it has this unique and profound ability to let people, the pagans as the Roman emperor calls themselves, look at him and then look at us and say, man, I don't know what they have, man, but they love each other well. Wouldn't you like to say that they love each other well? Man, these Christians, even though they go to different churches, they really love each other well. There's blood in the crypts on these streets with churches, man. I'm telling y'all, we be church banging. It's insane." [28:27] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
9. "Imagine what the collective, imagine shine the collective. Imagine what the capital C church could look like in our city if we made the decision to live generously. When we do serve day, instead of 10% of the church showing up, 100% shows up to say, I'm going to generously serve and love on my city. Quit making excuses for not living a life of generosity. Because you can naturally be a generous person when you identify and recognize and hold to the good goodness of God." [36:20] (43 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
10. "Imagine the city calling the church and saying hey we need help because your church is so generous. We need help in this situation. You want to know something this might step on toes. I've heard it this way. I've worked for non-profits. You know why faith based non-profit organization exists? Because the church isn't doing their job. Honestly. Someone who's worked in the non-profit sector. I can say that in the faith based community. Because our job is to give ourselves to the benevolence. Our job is to give ourselves to orphans and widows." [31:15] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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2. "If you want to know if something is you being generous or if you are walking in generosity, my question to you would be, when you gave it, did it hurt you? When you gave it, did it cost you something? When you gave it, did you have a moment of debate saying, God, is there another way that you can do this? Because true generosity is indicative of the posture of your heart. And also on the base of it being sacrificial." [11:07] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "The question that I would present to you is, that I have asked myself, why did this poor widow give? Her very last two coins to the temple courts. Scripture isn't clear. Scripture doesn't indicate. There was no commentary that suggests why she did. But I can only speculate why she gave. She probably gave out of a response to the goodness of God. Wait. How is God good in her situation? She's poor. Her husband's dead. She's a widow. She's probably childless because it says she's poor, so that means she doesn't have a son who is helping her." [14:28] (40 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "You know what the problem is with the church today? Is that we only associate God being good with the blessings he gives us. God is good when the medical report is good. God is good when I got the raise. God is good when I put a ring on it. God is good when the money's good. God is good when the business is good. But when the business is bad, God's not too good. When the medical report is bad, God's not too good. When the medical report comes back and I don't really like it, God is not good. We've associated the goodness of God with the blessings that are in your hands." [15:13] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "Can you say that he's still good in your life in difficult situations? Can you still worship in the midst of hard times? Can you still walk in obedience in the midst of hard times, knowing that he is everything? That he is a good God? That he's always been good? He doesn't stop being good. He continues to be good. Because I want you to know something, that if God did nothing more than send his son to die on a cross and be resurrected on the third day for you, if he did nothing more than that, that very act was good enough in itself and undeserved on our part. But yet he gives it to us." [17:49] (37 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
6. "Christianity would have faded away? Without generous Christians? Christianity would have faded without, go to the verse, Acts chapter two. When we did ingredients of a healthy church, we looked at this. This is the early church. This is what happened after the church gets birthed, right? Peter's in the balcony. He's preaching the gospel. 3,000 people get saved and now they got to do something with these people. They got to have a church and go to lunch. This is what it said. They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship and to breaking of bread and prayer." [20:35] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
7. "Imagine what this church would look like if we all chose to live generously amongst each other. Imagine what it would look like if we all chose to live generously amongst each other. Imagine how we would take care of each other. Imagine what the onlookers in the world would think about the actual true church when we start being the actual true church. Nobody wants to go to your stupid church because it's new or it's cool because it has an LED wall. They want to go because they see something different. And they want to see it in you and they want to see it in us and they want to see it in me." [23:04] (34 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
8. "The beauty and the importance of generosity is that it has this unique and profound ability to let people, the pagans as the Roman emperor calls themselves, look at him and then look at us and say, man, I don't know what they have, man, but they love each other well. Wouldn't you like to say that they love each other well? Man, these Christians, even though they go to different churches, they really love each other well. There's blood in the crypts on these streets with churches, man. I'm telling y'all, we be church banging. It's insane." [28:27] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
9. "Imagine what the collective, imagine shine the collective. Imagine what the capital C church could look like in our city if we made the decision to live generously. When we do serve day, instead of 10% of the church showing up, 100% shows up to say, I'm going to generously serve and love on my city. Quit making excuses for not living a life of generosity. Because you can naturally be a generous person when you identify and recognize and hold to the good goodness of God." [36:20] (43 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
10. "Imagine the city calling the church and saying hey we need help because your church is so generous. We need help in this situation. You want to know something this might step on toes. I've heard it this way. I've worked for non-profits. You know why faith based non-profit organization exists? Because the church isn't doing their job. Honestly. Someone who's worked in the non-profit sector. I can say that in the faith based community. Because our job is to give ourselves to the benevolence. Our job is to give ourselves to orphans and widows." [31:15] (33 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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