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FEAR or FAITH

FEAR or FAITH. Fear or Faith: How do you give ? $. MONOPOLY…. $tarting Point. G R A C E o i t h x d c r p s h i e e s n s t’ s s e. $tarting Point.

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FEAR or FAITH

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  1. FEAR or FAITH

  2. Fear or Faith: How do you give? $ MONOPOLY….

  3. $tarting Point G R A C E o i t h x d c r p s h i e e s n s t’ s s e

  4. $tarting Point G R A C E o i t h x d c r p s h i e e s n s t’ s s e

  5. $tatistics National: 30 % 30%

  6. $tatistics LCMS: 1 million less in ‘10 1.6 million less in ‘11

  7. $tastics: PEACE Much accomplished with Restore and Renew… But giving has dropped.

  8. $tatistics: Peace PLATE CONTRIBUTIONS:

  9. $tatistics Why the Drop? • Economy’s tangible effect • Drop in giving lagged behind recession (www.barna.org “Donors proceed with caution”)

  10. $tatistics Why the Drop? F E A R

  11. $cripture Deut 8:18 — “Remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth.”

  12. $cripture Romans 8:32-33 — “He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?”

  13. $cripture Philippians 3:20 “Our citizenship is in heaven.”

  14. $cripture 2 Cor. 9:7 Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

  15. $cripture 2 Cor. 9: 10 Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.

  16. $cripture 2 Cor. 9: 6 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.

  17. $cripture Luke 6:38 — “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”

  18. Give out of FAITH, not FEAR 2 Timothy 1:7 God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

  19. $cripture Malachi 3:8 “Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ “In tithes and offerings. 9 You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me. 

  20. 10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.

  21. $tatements What statement does my giving make?

  22. $tatements Giving is an act of worship. (LCMS worship attendance in Saginaw down 17% in five years)

  23. $tatements FEARFUL GIVING FAITHFUL GIVING It’s up to HIM! He will give MORE than enough! I do NEED to give it! Our COUNTRY is eternal! I WANT to give! (glory! ) Giving GIVES to me! I’M EXCITED TO GIVE! It’s up to ME! He might not GIVE enough! I may NEED to keep it! Our COUNTRY is in trouble! I HAVE to give! (bummer) Giving TAKES from me! I’M SCARED TO GIVE!

  24. $tatements It all goes back in the box.

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