Examining your heart

Just the Facts2016 Actual

Contribution: $803KSpending: 856K Shortfall ($53K)

2017 Budget$873K 839K

$34K SurplusHowever, based on run rates through 2/12/17, 2017 contribution would be only $771K, leaving a shortfall of ($68K)

Just the FactsFor the remainder of 2017, if each family:Gave an additional $12 per week we would make our contribution budget.Gave additional $8 per week would cover our spending budget.

Examining Your Heart


“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and

steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in

heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and

steal. For where your treasure is, there your

heart will be also.”

Matthew 6:19-

21


We should have hearts of

gratitude


2Corinthians 9:6-126 But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 7 So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, notgrudgingly or of

necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.


2Corinthians 9:6-128 And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.


2Corinthians 9:6-129 As it is written: “He has dispersed abroad, He has given to the poor; His righteousness endures forever.”,


2Corinthians 9:6-1210 Now may He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply the seed you have sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness,


2Corinthians 9:6-1211 while you are enriched in everything for all liberality, which causes thanksgiving through us to God.


2Corinthians 9:6-1212 For the administration of this service not only supplies the needs of the saints, but also is abounding through many thanksgivings to God.


We should have hearts of

compassion


2Corinthians 8:1-71 Moreover, brethren, we make known to you the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia:


2Corinthians 8:1-72 that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded in the riches of their liberality.


2Corinthians 8:1-73 For I bear witness that according to their ability, yes, and beyond their ability, they were freely willing, 4 imploring us with much urgency that we would receive the gift andthe fellowship of the

ministering to the saints.


2Corinthians 8:1-75 And not only as we had hoped, but they first gave themselves to the Lord, and then to us by the will of God. 6 So we urged Titus, that as he had begun, so he would alsocomplete this grace in

you as well.


2Corinthians 8:1-77 But as you abound in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all diligence, and in your love for us—see that you abound in this grace also.


“Many believers seem to care only about the spiritual welfare of others, paying no

attention to the hardship and injustice they suffer. How sad. But many other

believers seem to care only about the physical and

material needs of people, completely ignoring their

spiritual poverty.


Such believers may deplore the worship of mammon,

and at the same time imply that a little prosperity is all

poor people need. The contradiction would be

humorous were it not so loveless. To love others is to

love them as complete persons, body and soul, not

one detached from the other.”


We should have hearts of faith and trust


2Corinthians 9:8And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.


“At the center of biblical generosity lies the belief

that God truly provides all that we need. With

gratitude for what He has already provided, and confidence that He will continue to provide, we

open our hands and release funds in a way that would

honor our creator.


We enter a cycle of care, where God provides, we give, and God provides

again. But if we are skeptical of God’s

goodness, if we are not confident of His care, a

lifestyle of generous giving will almost certainly

be short-circuited.”


Gratitude

Compassion

Faith and Trust

For where your

treasure is, there

your heart will be also.

~ Jesus

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