“Now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
1. Feed on the Word
2. Avoid greed, work hard, and _practice generosity_
Acts 20:33–35 NIV84
I have not coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing. You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions. In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”
2. Avoid greed, work hard, and practice generosity
3. Love _the flock_
Acts 20:36–38 NIV84
When he had said this, he knelt down with all of them and prayed. They all wept as they embraced him and kissed him. What grieved them most was his statement that they would never see his face again. Then they accompanied him to the ship.