WE MUST BE THE CHAMPIONS!
The blog series that we are in has been about giving as a
heart issue, and we’ve talked about Biblical generosity, modeling, celebrating,
and generosity as a mark of discipleship.
This week we are going to talk about champions. There are champions
in sports, where there are medals and other awards. There is the song by Queen,
“We Are the Champions”, which talks about being champions and fighting until
the end.
The champions I’m talking about today are those persons who
make sure that generosity and giving are a priority. There should always be
someone(s) at the table where generosity and giving are a priority. Generosity
cannot take a back seat to anything that is going on in our church.
We’ve talking about generosity being Biblical and part of
our theology and our discipleship. This means that generosity cannot be ignored
and must be a priority, no matter what. Of course, sometimes there are times
when something really, really pressing comes along and generosity takes a back
seat to that (and appropriately so). But those times should be few and far in between
and those times cannot last forever.
I know we’ve suffered through a pandemic that has now
lasted more than one year; many of our buildings have been closed, some of our folks
have become sick or passed away, some of us are vaccinated and some are not.
For a while, just keeping a worship service going virtually took all of our
energy and our focus. It was about survival. And I get it!
But…we have to keep generosity before ourselves and before
our folks, both those in leadership positions in the church, those regular
attenders and those not-so-regular attenders. Giving is part of our worship and
part of our being disciples, and important to the work that God is asking us to
do in the world.
We must be champions of generosity; and everyone in leadership
positions should be champions of generosity as well. When we are champions, we
will reach the world and we will transform it!
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