Why We Give
When it comes to giving, we have only two rules at MC3 Church: Give cheerfully and give what the Lord tells you.
Despite our tendency to shy away from the topic, nearly one quarter of Jesus’ teaching was about money. The truth is that money is morally neutral, but what we do with our money reveals something much deeper — what’s in our hearts (Matthew 6:21). God is the creator and owner of everything, so we are merely stewards of His stuff (1 Chronicles 29:14).
MC3 encourages members and regular attenders to follow the Biblical model of giving cheerfully (2 Corinthians 9:7) and sacrificially (Psalm 4:5). Contributing financially to the work of the church out of our “first fruits” is both a renunciation of greed as an idol and an acknowledgement that all we have been given is given to us by God and is to be used for his purposes (Matthew 25:14-30). It is an expression of worship in response to all that God has done in our midst.
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Check out these scriptures for Biblical Guidance
Proverbs 3:9
Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase…
Malachi 3:8-12
Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed…
Matthew 6:19-21
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt…
Matthew 25:14-29
For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted…
Luke 21:1-4
And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury…
Acts 2:44-47, 20:35
And all that believed were together, and had all things common…
1 Corinthians 4:1-2
Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the…
2 Corinthians 9:6-15
But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly…