Romans 15.22-33
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Are you a ‘Gifter’ or a ‘Getter’?
Christmas gifts!
Gifting Supports the Gospel in Church Planting
Gifting Supports the Gospel in Church Planting
v.22-24
The entirety of Romans is a ‘Fundraising Letter’
“This is how good the Good News of the Gospel is.”
“Will you help me keep telling it?”
Why is Church Planting the Most effective means of reaching the lost?
People are attracted to new things. (Restaurants and Keller).
Sense of desperation.
These are bad reasons. **Go where no one else has gone yet.** Church plants reach unreached who don’t fit in at an established church.
mi: So, gift.
Gifting Supports the Gospel in Demonstrating Changed Lives
Gifting Supports the Gospel in Demonstrating Changed Lives
v.25-27
You use to spend your money on that. Now you spend it on supporting the announcing of the Gospel.
You may have even become, tender-hearted. Mercy.
You may have become a pray-er. Faith.
You may have become wealthy (or simply ‘able to share’). Generosity.
But, also, you spend your money and use your stuff to support the announcing of the Gospel.
mi: So, gift.
You may have become… Or you may simply “owe” the ones who came before you (v.27).
mi: So, gift.
Gifting Supports the Gospel in Actually Seeing Our Most Important Dreams Come True (Gospel Dreams).
Gifting Supports the Gospel in Actually Seeing Our Most Important Dreams Come True (Gospel Dreams).
v.28-33
Seashells? Or Spain?
Q1. What do you hope that our church could accomplish?
Q2. How would that accomplishment affect, help, and bless you? How would it affect, help, and bless someone
else?
mi: So, gift.
Fulfilling dreams requires (v.30-33)
Praying
Doing a hard thing
Knowing that you’ll find rest in friends/partners
Knowing that God is your peace.
And giving.
What the Church is Going to Give to You
What the Church is Going to Give to You
v.29
If your car had a flat tire, you wouldn’t go to an Eye Doctor.
Show the way to Heaven.
Answer the Will of God. Church Discipline.
Mediation; divorce-proofing.
Counseling.
Weddings. Funerals.
Prayer. Healing.
I am not asking those of you who give to give more. I am asking those who have struggled to give, to give.
“But are you just going to live in some rich mansion!”
We cannot do the ministry that we want to do without more people gfiting.
mi: So, gift.
Q2. How would that accomplishment affect, help, and bless you? How would it affect, help, and bless someone else?
Giving is obedience. (Talents).
Gifting grows your faith. (Widow).
Gifting grows your knowledge of God and ‘ultimate’ things. (Rust).
Gifting seems to get you more to gift. (Good gifts).
But, more...
Gifting bonds us in “The fullness” of the Gospel; reminding you and peeling back where we can really live.
So don’t miss the FOMO in this passage
v.24: I hope to see you...
v.24: To be helped by you...
v.32: Come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company...
Gathering: “I can’t wait to be with you!”
Incarnation: “I can’t wait to be with you!”
We’re supporting Heaven coming to Earth. King come!
Here it is in Giving:
LBH:
God already provided what you need to give.
God already provided what you need to give.
And we can be living in it together now.
Giving doesn’t change your status; already secure.
Giving is already in your bank account; already there.
mi: So, gift.
Application:
Giving means sacrifice; you’ll have to cut something else out. (Giving is already in your budget).
1% every month.
or
$100 every month.
Benevolence “Pay back.”
Sign up for Recurring Giving.
$5000 Christmas offering.