HOW WE SHOULD GIVE?

9 PRINCIPLES OF HOW WE SHOULD GIVE

THE NEW TESTAMENT DOES TEACH TITHING

BUT IT TEACHES PRINCIPLES OF HOW WE OUGHT TO GIVE

1. GIVE PRIVATELY

“….do not announce it with trumpets…”

“…do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret.”

Matthew 6: 2

So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 

Matthew 6: 3-4

3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,4 so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

II Corinthians 9:7

Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

2. GIVE VOLUNTARILY

“Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give…NOT under compulsion”

Giving is expected but the percentage that you give is not Compulsory but voluntarily.

3. GIVE WILLINGLY

“Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give…NOT Reluctantly”

4. GIVE CHEERFULLY

“...God loves a cheerful giver.”

I Corinthians 16:1-2

Now about the collection for the Lord’s people: Do what I told the Galatian churches to do. 2 On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with your income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made.

5. GIVE REGULARLY

“On the first day of the week, each of you is to pu something aside and store it up, as he may prosper...”

6. GIVE INDIVIDUALLY

“On the first day of the week, each of you is to pu something aside and store it up, as he may prosper...”

7. GIVE PROPORTIONALLY

“On the first day of the week, each of you is to pu something aside and store it up, as he may prosper...”

II Corinthians 8:2-4

Out of the most severe trail, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity. For I testify that they gave as they were able, and even beyond their ability. Entirely on their own, they urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service to the saints. (NIV)

8. GIVE GENEROUSLY

“Out of the most severe trail, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity.”

II Corinthians 9:6-7

Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.

9. GIVE SACRIFICIALLY

“For I testify that they gave as they were able, and even beyond their ability…”

—2 Corinthians 8: 2)

HOW TO GIVE

2. GIVE VOLUNTARILY (2 Cor. 9: 7a)3. GIVE WILLINGLY (2 Cor. 9: 7b)

7. GIVE PROPORTIONALLY (1 Cor. 16: 2b, 2 Cor. 8:11-12

4. GIVE JOYFULLY (2 Cor. 9: 7b)

8. GIVE GENEROUSLY ( 2 Cor. 8: 1-2)

1. GIVE PRIVATELY (Matthew 6: 3-4)

6. GIVE INDIVIDUALLY (1 Cor.16: 2b)

5. GIVE REGULARY (1 Cor.16: 1-2)

9. GIVE SACRIFICIALLY (2 Cor. 8: 3)