Charisma – GIVING
The explosive growth of the Church didn’t happen just because of social innovation. Its growth was miraculous—divine action through human instruments. Deposited in each follower of Jesus are spiritual gifts that build up the Church and that are for the common good. Do you know how you’ve been gifted? And are you courageous enough to live them out?
In this week’s podcast, Paul talks about the spiritual gift of giving.
Giving (Romans 12:8) is the spiritual capacity to display God’s generosity by giving liberally to meet the needs of others with pure motives.
Giving of our time, skills, helps us protect us from being corrupted by affluence and allows us to have a global perspective on our needs versus our wants. Giving is relative and proportional: the more you make, the more the difference should be from how you live and how you could live. We give because God first gave his son, Jesus, to die on the cross for the forgiveness of sin.