Text: Philippians 4:10-14 & Deuteronomy 8:11-18
Title: “Simple Stewardship: Simply Give”
Because we had such a great presentation from the Gideons, I’m going to keep this a little shorter than usual today…and probably quite a bit shorter than many “concluding sermons” for a stewardship drive. This would probably be the sermon where the pastor pulls out all the stops, pulls on every heartstrings, tells you to think about the children, and implies that an angel cries when you give anything less than 10% of your income to the church.
As fun as that may sound, this is “Simple Stewardship.”
We’ve been saying that stewardship could be simplified to some base concepts.
FIRST -- SIMPLY BELIEVE – Believe that we have a God who’s big enough to provide for you…and when you give, God will take care of you. God, the creator of the heavens and the earth will be with you if you nudge up your giving. Believing that you couldn’t possibly give more…for almost everybody…is a belief that God couldn’t possibly provide enough. Don’t sell him short.
SECOND -- SIMPLY SERVE – Our giving is an act of service. Because you give, we can have a food pantry, we can have someone to counsel those who have lost loved ones, we can have Vacation Bible School, and we can, “through our apportionments (our giving to the Alaska United Methodist Conference) be in mission and ministry around the world. When we give, we think beyond ourselves to others.
And, today, it’s SIMPLY GIVE.
But why?
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