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I - want to be like that
Think with me for a minuet.
If you really needed help from someone who would you ask when there is no time for a no?
If if was an emergency and you needed to come up with money you didn’t have...
Or if you needed someone to come quick and watch your kids...
Or if your car broke down at 11 o’clock at night in a snowstorm and you needed a ride...
Or if your friend or family member need help moving tomorrow?
Or you need someone to pick you up from surgery?
Or your water stopped working and you cant afford a plumber?
Who would you call?
What would they say?
Would they be there right away?
I am lucky to have some people like that.Incredibly Generous gracious people i know
We know a few families/people (one of my best friends in seminairy was like this) - (one time he fixed my car in a snowstorm while I went to class)- Sort of people that would drop anything to give you a hand.
The people you call at midnight
people here
ABUNDANT generosity.
AND its clear that giving gives them life.
I was telling a friend about their generosity and he said, some people like that, they feel good by being generous… But I think there is more too it than that
I constantly see and RECIEVE ABUNDANT generosity from people who expect nothing in return.
Its almost too much.
And it makes me think … How do you become that person?
what does it take to become TRULY generous.
That kind of love that SPLASHES over the sides
Y - I think most of us do
I think most of us WISH we could be generous like those people.
Wish we could be benefactors.
Wish we could live the gospel like that, we wish we could be that sort of person.
But I don’t know about you, but my efforts in that direction are often half hearted and short lived.
“I hope someday I will be rich enough, I hope someday I will have enough time, I hope someday I will be in a position in my life that I can be generous”
Perhaps when I am getting enought sleep
Perhaps when...but then a year goes by and another year and I am right where I started, pinching pennies, hours, and energy
What step can we take to become that sort of person?
A person whose faith is marked by a Generous spirit.
G - Paul says its about JOINING into the CYCLE of Grace.
Not giving to get back, but joining the cycle of CHARIS
This fall we have been looking at spiritual practices and their counterparts, things that Christians have done for centuries to make room for God to work in their lives.
Things like Praying and Acting, Feasting and Fasting.
This week we are looking at Giving and Recieving
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TRANSITION:
The bible talks a lot about Giving and receiving....
But one of the most valuable sections of the bible on giving and receiving is in Paul's second letter to the Corinthians ch 8-9.
We aren't going to read all of it.
But seriously take some time and READ IT this week.
All of it and let it mess with you a little.
wrestle with it a little.
Because its pretty radical pretty amazing stuff.
It paints a beautiful picture of what it looks like to live according to the SUPERNATURAL generosity in the Love God Love others GOSPEL.
Background-
2 Corinthians is a Letter, written by a person named Paul.
Paul is this really important early church leader who was the first we know of to introduce the Story of Jesus (the Gospel)(good news) to non Jewish people in the Roman world.
One of the towns Paul did this in was called Corinth, and when Paul left town he left behind a community of Greek followers of Jesus.
After leaving towns like Corinth Paul would keep in touch and help problem solve for these communities by sending letters, people, and occasionally visiting again.
Famine in Jerusalem - bad
Corinthians agreed to help, but now are signaling that they wont (for lots of reasons
After leaving towns Paul would keep in touch and help problem solve for these communities by sending letters, people, and occasionally visiting again.
8-9 are Paul’s attempt to get them to fulfil their promise.
One of the reasons Paul is writing to Corinthians is Fam
Paul addresses this need in kind of a backwards way..
Paul is their founding father, they owe him a lot.
And if you are a all familiar with how these things tend to play out in the world you might expect him to...
Command
Demand
Shame
Manipulate
Offer them something
In order to get them to keep the promise they made, and you probably wouldnt blame Paul
But he does none of these things.
And when people/pastors do its wrong.
But instead he focuses on this one word.
A word he uses 10 times in these 2 chapters
PAUL does none of these things.
And when people/pastors do its wrong.
But instead he focuses on this one word.
A word we use alot in church but less so in other places
GRACE - CHARIS
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He says it 18 times in 2 Corinthians, 10 of those times are in chapters 8/9.
CHARIS.
Instead of commanding, or twisting their arm, and demanding they live up to their commitment.
He focuses relentlessly on
TRANS:
Instead of commanding, or twisting their arm, and demanding they live up to their commitment.
He focuses relentlessly on
CHARIS
Background:
Charis
2 Stories of what χάρις looks like
Macedonians (8:1-7) walk through and explain...
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Grace χάρις is like a community that gave to others when you would think they had nothing to give.
Paul’s question is, “How will you continue the story?”
Jesus (8:9) walk through and explain.
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χάρις Grace is like a God who became poor to make us rich.
question is, “How will you continue the story?”
The question is implied; You have Recieved GRACE, what will you do with it?
Forget it?
Minimize it?
Hoard it?
Claim it as your own hard work?
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