{ Why Most People Hate Sermons On Giving - S. Furtick }

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1. The got to give approach

• "Well I got to give to God" (Like a tax bill)
• "If you don't, we won't"
• Like God is limited by our human decisions
• If the gift is given out of obligation, it is not very meaningful, and it won't be very consistent
• God doesn't desperately need what we have, we desperately need what He has

2. Give to get approach

• Using God as a robot, and Blessing becomes a formula
• "If you give God $100, He will multiply and make it $10,000"
• To really make God nothing more than a vending machine, when you put in this, and you get out that, that is a problem
• God does give to us when we give to Him - Is a promise, is the way He is, you sow and your reap, but when we make that the object of our giving, we miss the point
• Be a person who gets to give, not got to give
• "I get to do it"
• "It is a blessing to do it"
• "I'm proud to do it"
• "I am thankful to do it"
• "I love to do it"