2 Corinthians 9

Joyful Generosity 

House Rules - Joyful Generosity 

Dave Riddle - 11/20/2022

Key Passage: Mark 12:41-44

Joyful Generosity 

Recognizing that all we have is a gift from God and learning to share what we have.

God Gave

  • God loved the world in this way: He gave his one and only Son. John 3:16

    • Jesus is the embodiment of generosity.

Generous: A readiness to give more of something that what is expected 

Jesus Gave Willingly

  • John 10:18

Jesus Gave Joyfully

  • Hebrews 12:2

Jesus Gave Purposefully

  • 1 Peter 3:18

Jesus Gave Sacrificially

  • Philippians 2:6-8

Our Generosity Should Be a Reflection of God

  • John 13:34

Generosity is An Attack On a Would-Be “King”

  • Matthew 6:24

    • Money = mamōnas (μαμωνᾶς) - Mammon - everything we pursue in life. Riches, treasures, dreams, feelings, idols. Everything that isn’t God.

    • Consumerism vs Generosity

Five Resources to be Generous With 

  • Physical Capital

  • Intellectual Capital

  • Relational Capital

  • Spiritual Capital

  • Financial Capital

An Example of Generosity 

  • 2 Corinthians 8:1-9

  • 2 Corinthians 9:6-7

Upside Down View of Generosity

Kids Choir Starts at 9:30 // Baptisms at 14:30 // Message at 30:00

Upside Down View of Generosity

03/20/2021 - Dave Riddle 

Key Passage: Mark 12:41-44

Oikonomics: The economy of God’s household. The way our family on mission invests it’s available resources in and for the family of God.

Five Capitals:

  • Spiritual Capital is about the depth of our relationship with God as a follower of Jesus, producing a spiritual equity that we invest in others.

  • Relational Capital refers to the quantity and quality of our relationships which produces a relational equity we have to invest.

  • Physical Capital is all about our ability to devote time and energy to both people and tasks. It includes the time we make available and the capacity we have to use that time.

  • Intellectual Capital refers to our capacity to think and reason, to use our minds as something to invest as part of God’s family on mission. Ideas and knowledge.

  • Financial Capital is perhaps the capital that we are most familiar with. Money. Treasure.

Generous: showing a readiness to give more of something than is strictly necessary or even expected.

The Widow’s Gift

  • Mark 12:41-44

    • Not a parable but an event Jesus is witnessing.

Priority, Regularity, Individuality, Proportionality

  • 1 Corinthians 16:2

  • They responded zealously!

    • 2 Corinthians 9:1-2

No one can serve two masters

  • Matthew 6:24

Give Thanks

  • Hebrews 12:28

Love Generously

  • John 13:34

An Assertion of our Trust

  • Mark 12:44

Give Cheerfully

  • 2 Corinthians 9:6-7

    • God loves it!

  • “You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who cannot repay you” - John Bunyan