Welcome to South! We're glad you joined us today. Below you will find some sermon notes and Bible passages, to help you follow along with Pastor Scott's message. We are finishing up a series called "What Does the Bible Say About Money". We hope you will be encouraged by what is taught today.

We need to be:

1) Giving in spite of our circumstances.

2) Giving enthusiastically, not legalistically.

3) Giving sacrificially, instead of simply using a percentage.

4) Giving as an act of worship.

We as Christians have the ability to motivate others, both in our words, as well as by our example, to live for and serve God better in their lives. Proverbs 27:17 says, “Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another.” And then in the N.T. book of Hebrews, chapter 10, the writer commands us to not neglect meeting together, because when we do, we cannot consider one another and how to be stirred up to love and good works.

-> Sowing and Reaping

-> Be sure to keep a good attitude

God does not instruct us to participate in grace giving because he needs us to meet the needs I just mentioned. However, since we are Christians who benefit from the work of God in church ministry, God instructs us to graciously and gratefully give back to his work, where He can and does choose to use our grace giving to meet these needs.

The Jewish believers would glorify God for the meeting of their needs. Also they would glorify God for the unifying work of Christ on the cross, making the truth of Galatians 3 a reality: “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”