{"id":555,"date":"2009-11-12T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/give-it-up\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T09:42:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T14:42:50","slug":"give-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=555","title":{"rendered":"Give it up&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pastor recently spoke in chapel about giving as explained in 2 Corinthians 8:1-15. This passage highlights three incentive for giving which amount to one.<br \/>1. God gives grace to give (1-2)<br \/>2. God gave himself to us (9)<br \/>3. God can supply the needs of others through us (14-15)<br \/>These 3 incentives amount to one overarching incentive &#8211; <br \/><span>GOD<\/span> is the incentive for giving<\/p>\n<p>At the outset of the message, he made the observation that this topic is normally not addressed in colleges or seminaries &#8211; due to the general lack of funds possessed by students. I also noticed that the topic is rarely addressed in churches because the pastor may feel guilty about &#8220;asking for money.&#8221; Both of these reasons &#8211; lack of funds or guilt -are tragic. They are robbing believers of the benefits of giving!<br \/>An example of a giving spirit is found at Desiring God. I truly appreciate the work which they are doing making many books available for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/ResourceLibrary\/OnlineBooks\/ByTitle\/\">free download at their site.<\/a> They also have <span>Desiring God <\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/christianaudio.com\/free\">audio book as a free download<\/a>. I understand that this is not possible for all authors, but their desire to further the Gospel and not the bank account has challenged me.<br \/>Am I willing to give freely of what could financially profit me? The statement &#8220;If you want to know what someone loves, look at their bank statement&#8221; does have merit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pastor recently spoke in chapel about giving as explained in 2 Corinthians 8:1-15. This passage highlights three incentive for giving which amount to one.1. God gives grace to give (1-2)2. God gave himself to us (9)3. God can supply &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/?p=555\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","category-wealth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34kFn-8X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5102,"href":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/5102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scquest.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}