No Tips Allowed: giving in God's Economy
Giving is for Everyone
Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given orders to the churches of Galatia, so you must do also:
Giving is for Each One
2 On the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside,
2 On the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper, that there be no collections when I come.
Giving is Planned
2 On the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside,
Giving is Proportionate
storing up as he may prosper, that there be no collections when I come.
Giving is Transparent & Trustworthy
3 And when I come, whomever you approve by your letters I will send to bear your gift to Jerusalem. 4 But if it is fitting that I go also, they will go with me.
Love of Christ & Love for Others
8 I speak not by commandment, but I am testing the sincerity of your love by the diligence of others.
9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.
13 For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened;
14 but by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may supply their lack, that their abundance also may supply your lack—that there may be equality.