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Welcome to disciple making
Generosity module
Therefore go and make disciples of all
nations, baptising them in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit, and teaching them to obey
everything* I have commanded you. And
surely I am with you always, to the very
end of the age."
(Matt 28:19-20)
The Generosity of God
6:17Thanks
be to God that, though you used
to be slaves to sin 6:22 you have been set
free from sin and have become slaves to
God. The benefit you reap leads to
holiness, and the result is eternal life.
6:23For the wages of sin is death, but the
gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus
our Lord. (Romans 6)
The Generosity of God
The Generosity of God
The Generosity of God
The Generosity of God
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."
(Luke 6:38)
The call to be generous
Love the lord with all
Love your neighbour
Part of love is Generosity
grace – loving kindness – chesed
This is achievable
we are the body of Christ
his spirit is with us
We may not achieve this if we don’t want to
But we find ourselves to be ungenerous
1:18The
wrath of God is being revealed from
heaven against all the godlessness and
wickedness of men, 1:21For although they knew
God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave
thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and
their foolish hearts were darkened. 1:29They have
become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil,
greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder,
strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,
1:30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and
boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they
disobey their parents; 1:31they are senseless,
faithless, heartless, ruthless. (Romans)
Generosity is achievable
Confession + there must be more than this
There must be more than this,
O breath of God come breathe within,
There must be more than this,
Spirit of God we wait for You.
Fill us anew we pray,
Fill us anew we pray.
Consuming fire fan into flame,
A passion for Your Name,
Spirit of God fall in this place,
Lord have Your way,
Lord have Your way with us,
Come like a rushing wind,
Clothe us with power from on high,
Now set the captives free,
Leave us abandoned to Your praise.
Lord let Your glory fall,
Lord let Your glory fall.
Generosity is achievable
Wickedness,
evil, greed,
depravity,
envy, murder,
strife, deceit,
malice.
gossip,
slander, Godhaters,
insolence,
arrogance
and boasting;
disobedient
senseless,
faithless,
heartless,
ruthless
We have access to grace
3:21But
now a righteousness from God, apart
from law, has been made known, to which the Law
and the Prophets testify. 3:22This righteousness
from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all
the faithful. 3:23All have sinned and fall short of the
glory of God, 3:24and are justified freely by his
grace through the redemption that came by Christ
Jesus.
5:1Therefore, since we have been justified through
faith, we have peace with God through our Lord
Jesus Christ, 5:2through whom we have gained
access by faith into this grace in which we now
stand.
I see the king
Generosity is achievable
I see the King of Glory coming on the clouds with fire;
The whole earth shakes, the whole earth shakes.
I see His love and mercy washing over all our sin;
The people sing, The people sing:
Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest. (Repeat)
I see a generation Rising up to take their place,
With selfless faith, With selfless faith.
I see a near revival Stirring as we pray and seek;
We're on our knees, We're on our knees.
Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest. (Repeat)
Heal my heart and make it clean;
Open up my eyes to the things unseen.
Show me how to love like You have loved me,
Break my heart for what breaks Yours;
Everything I am for Your kingdom's cause,
As I walk from earth into eternity.
Hosanna, Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest. (Repeat)
Generosity is achievable
Invitation
We are invited to come together
as those who belong
to the household of Christ,
brothers and sisters,
who in our baptized lives live out
the death and resurrection of Jesus.
The family of the reborn and the reconciled,
who inhabit a universe of grace.
Generosity is achievable
Thanks
Creating and redeeming God,
we give you thanks and praise
for your covenant of grace:
a covenant expressed
in sinful people who know forgiveness,
the weary who are refreshed,
the hungry who are nourished,
the captives who are set free
and the oppressed who experience liberation.
Thank you that you chose to make us a part of your story.
Generosity is achievable
Thank you for Jesus Christ
who revealed your love in his death and
resurrection
and who continues to share his life with us
through bread and wine.
Thank you for sending the Holy Spirit
who sustains us in our walk together,
helping us to watch over each other,
to pray for one another,
and to work together for justice and truth.
Generosity is achievable
As we eat this bread
and drink from the cup,
(signs of hospitality and grace),
may we be empowered to serve boldly
wherever you may call.
Accept these prayers
and our heartfelt thanksgiving
in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Generosity is achievable
The Lord Jesus
on the night when he was
betrayed
took a loaf of bread
and when he had given
thanks,
he broke it and said,
“This is my body that is for
you.
Do this in remembrance of
me”.
Generosity is achievable
In the same way he took
the cup also, after
supper,
saying “This cup is the
new covenant in my
blood.
Do this as often as you
drink it in remembrance
of me”.
Paul reminds us that as
often as we eat this
bread and drink the cup,
we proclaim the Lord’s
death until he comes.
Generosity is achievable
Post Communion
Holy God,
we have been nourished and had our thirst quenched,
through bread broken and wine poured
in thanksgiving for your Son Jesus Christ.
Send us out to be as generous to those we meet this week,
that we might show through word and deed
that he is not dead,
but risen and present among us
For Christ has Died - Christ is Risen
& Christ will come again.
Generosity is achievable
1) All I once held dear, built
my life upon
All this world reveres, and
wars to own
All I once thought gain I have
counted loss;
Spent and worthless now,
compared to this.
Knowing You, Jesus
Knowing You, there is no
greater thing.
You’re my all, You’re the best
You’re my joy, my
righteousness
And I love You, Lord.
2) Now my heart’s desire
is to know You more
To be found in You and
known as Yours.
To possess by faith what I
could not earn
All-surpassing gift of
righteousness.
3) Oh, to know the power
of Your risen life
And to know You in Your
sufferings.
To become like You in
Your death, my Lord
So with You to live and
never die.
Generosity is achievable
The call to be
generous in our relationships
This is achievable
we are the body of Christ
We may not achieve this if we don’t want to
Radical generosity in relationships
For the benefit of others
Jesus "When you give a dinner, do not invite
your friends or your rich neighbours; if you
do, they may invite you back and so you
will be repaid. When you give a banquet,
invite whose who cannot repay you, you
will be blessed“ (Luke 14:12-14)
Time – money - possessions
Generosity is achievable
Radical generosity in relationships
Doing it first
Afford it
plans
dreams
budgets
Generosity is achievable – To be radical it comes first
Malachi 3: Tithes and Offerings
7Ever
since the time of your forefathers you have turned away
from my decrees and have not kept them.
Return to me, and I will return to you," says the LORD Almighty.
"But you ask, 'How are we to return?'
8"Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me.
"But you ask, 'How do we rob you?'
"In tithes and offerings.
9You are under a curse-- the whole nation of you–
because you are robbing me.
10Bring 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 you will not have room enough
for it.
11I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in
your fields will not cast their fruit," says the LORD Almighty.
12"Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a
delightful land," says the LORD Almighty.
Thank God for his written Word to us
Radical generosity in relationships
Not law but grace: big picture people
14For
sin shall not be your master,
because you are not under law, but under
grace. 15What then? Shall we sin because
we are not under law but under grace? By
no means! 17Thanks be to God that,
though you used to be slaves to sin 22 you
have been set free from sin and have
become slaves to God. (Romans 6)
When you don’t want to
Generosity is achievable – To be radical it comes first & always
"Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has
been pleased to give you the kingdom.
Sell your possessions and give to the poor.
Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear
out, a treasure in heaven that will not be
exhausted, where no thief comes near and no
moth destroys.
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be
also.
(Luke 12:32-34)
Generosity is achievable – To be radical it comes first & always