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Generosity Much
of what church has become is about service, about duty to God because
of the grace He's extended to us. It's like some sort of spiritual
trade-off. Service is a change in action. But what if it goes deeper
than that. What if instead of just changing actions because of duty
(or others expectations, or guilt, or whatever) God began to change our
attitude. Generosity is a change of attitude, where giving ourselves
away is an everyday opportunity, not an obligation. When we practice a
spirit of generosity through our serving others, through our giving to
those in need, in our partnership with others in collective ways to
bring God's good into the world, something happens in us, too.
Generosity is the greatest way to give and to simultaneously
receive . And so from the beginning, we want to give ourselves away as
much as we can, because that's what Jesus did, and because the
incredible joy it brought to him, even in the shame of death, will be
ours as well. |
