5th Sunday Challenge: Giving to Others
- 2. GIVING TO OTHERS KEY VERSE: “THEREFORE, AS YE ABOUND IN EVERYTHING, IN FAITH, AND UTTERANCE, AND KNOWLEDGE, AND IS ALL DILIGENCE, AND IN YOUR LOVE TO US, SEE THAT YE ABOUND IN THIS GRACE ALSO” (2 COR. 8:7)
- 3. 1 CORINTHIANS 13: 1-7 DEVOTIONAL READING 1 THOUGH I SPEAK WITH THE TONGUES OF MEN AND OF ANGELS, AND HAVE NOT CHARITY, I AM BECOME AS SOUNDING BRASS, OR A TINKLING CYMBAL. 2 AND THOUGH I HAVE THE GIFT OF PROPHECY, AND UNDERSTAND ALL MYSTERIES, AND ALL KNOWLEDGE; AND THOUGH I HAVE ALL FAITH, SO THAT I COULD REMOVE MOUNTAINS, AND HAVE NOT CHARITY, I AM NOTHING. 3 AND THOUGH I BESTOW ALL MY GOODS TO FEED THE POOR, AND THOUGH I GIVE MY BODY TO BE BURNED, AND HAVE NOT CHARITY, IT PROFITETH ME NOTHING.
- 4. DEVOTIONAL READING 1 CORINTHIANS 13: 1-7 (CONTINUED) 4 CHARITY SUFFERETH LONG, AND IS KIND; CHARITY ENVIETH NOT; CHARITY VAUNTETH NOT ITSELF, IS NOT PUFFED UP, 5 DOTH NOT BEHAVE ITSELF UNSEEMLY, SEEKETH NOT HER OWN, IS NOT EASILY PROVOKED, THINKETH NO EVIL; 6 REJOICETH NOT IN INIQUITY, BUT REJOICETH IN THE TRUTH; 7 BEARETH ALL THINGS, BELIEVETH ALL THINGS, HOPETH ALL THINGS, ENDURETH ALL THINGS.
- 5. LEARNING OBJECTIVES •RECOGNIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF ASSISTING AND STRIVING TO BUILD THE COMMUNITY OF BELIEVERS THROUGH THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPAL OF GIVING.
- 6. EXEMPLARY MODELS OF GIVING 2 CORINTHIANS 8: 1-9 1 MOREOVER, BRETHREN, WE DO YOU TO WIT OF THE GRACE OF GOD BESTOWED ON THE CHURCHES OF MACEDONIA; 2 HOW THAT IN A GREAT TRIAL OF AFFLICTION THE ABUNDANCE OF THEIR JOY AND THEIR DEEP POVERTY ABOUNDED UNTO THE RICHES OF THEIR LIBERALITY. 3 FOR TO THEIR POWER, I BEAR RECORD, YEA, AND BEYOND THEIR POWER THEY WERE WILLING OF THEMSELVES; 4 PRAYING US WITH MUCH IN TREATY THAT WE WOULD RECEIVE THE GIFT, AND TAKE UPON US THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE MINISTERING TO THE SAINTS.
- 7. EXEMPLARY MODELS OF GIVING 2 CORINTHIANS 8: 1-9 (CONTINUED) 5 AND THIS THEY DID, NOT AS WE HOPED, BUT FIRST GAVE THEIR OWN SELVES TO THE LORD, AND UNTO US BY THE WILL OF GOD. 6 INSOMUCH THAT WE DESIRED TITUS, THAT AS HE HAD BEGUN, SO HE WOULD ALSO FINISH IN YOU THE SAME GRACE ALSO. 7 THEREFORE, AS YE ABOUND IN EVERY THING, IN FAITH, AND UTTERANCE, AND KNOWLEDGE, AND IN ALL DILIGENCE, AND IN YOUR LOVE TO US, SEE THAT YE ABOUND IN THIS GRACE ALSO. 8 I SPEAK NOT BY COMMANDMENT, BUT BY OCCASION OF THE FORWARDNESS OF OTHERS, AND TO PROVE THE SINCERITY OF YOUR LOVE. 9 FOR YE KNOW THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THAT, THOUGH HE WAS RICH, YET FOR YOUR SAKES HE BECAME POOR, THAT YE THROUGH HIS POVERTY MIGHT BE RICH.
- 8. 2 CORINTHTIAHNSE 8 :P 1R0-O12PER MOTIVE FOR GIVING 10 AND HEREIN I GIVE MY ADVICE: FOR THIS IS EXPEDIENT FOR YOU, WHO HAVE BEGUN BEFORE, NOT ONLY TO DO, BUT ALSO TO BE FORWARD A YEAR AGO. 11 NOW THEREFORE PERFORM THE DOING OF IT; THAT AS THERE WAS A READINESS TO WILL, SO THERE MAY BE A PERFORMANCE ALSO OUT OF THAT WHICH YE HAVE. 12 FOR IF THERE BE FIRST A WILLING MIND, IT IS ACCEPTED ACCORDING TO THAT A MAN HATH, AND NOT ACCORDING TO THAT HE HATH NOT.
- 9. THE BASIC PRINCIPLE OF GIVING 2 CORINTHIANS 8: 13-14 13 FOR I MEAN NOT THAT OTHER MEN BE EASED, AND YE BURDENED: 14 BUT BY AN EQUALITY, THAT NOW AT THIS TIME YOUR ABUNDANCE MAY BE A SUPPLY FOR THEIR WANT, THAT THEIR ABUNDANCE ALSO MAY BE A SUPPLY FOR YOUR WANT: THAT THERE MAY BE EQUALITY:
- 10. GIVING TO OTHERS