Keith's Messages

Last week we looked at the relational tithe and the legal tithe, the idea of relational giving and transactional giving. Transactional giving says, “If I do X, God must do Y in return, therefore I am blessed.”  Relational giving says: “I am so grateful for what God has already done for me, I will sacrificially give to see others blessed and the Kingdom grow.” Today will discover, the heart of the believer is a generous one. The Generous Heart A lot of people who tell me that tithing is no longer required of us forget to mention this: everything we have comes from God! He doesn’t want 10% believers but 100% commitment.  Planned Generosity: 1 Corinthians 16:1-2: Now about the collection for the Lord’s people: Do what I told the Galatian churches to do. 2 On the first day of every week, each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with your income, saving it up, so that when I come no collections will have to be made. Why were they to do this on the first day o...

  Today we are going to chat about money and finances. How we use, steward and view money is vitally important if we care about our vision here at ANCC: To make Jesus known to everyone, everywhere. Money’s Morality For too long we have sad that money is evil. It is not.  Money is amoral. In other words it has no morality attached to it, it has not mind of its own, it cannot decide how it is earned, where it is going to go and what it is going to be used for. The morality that money has comes from us. We are the ones who give it its purpose. Too often money is seen as being the purpose of people, the gaining of it. Money brings happiness after all, right? Not so. Money gives options to a person, and options create a sense of well being. In and of itself money will not make you happy. 1 Timothy 6:10: For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some use this as a proof text that having money is wrong. Let’s look at this in context: 1 Timothy 6:6-10: But godli...