Our budget is a dead giveaway to our priorities. Take the challenge to step up your giving to God.
Talking Points:
- Evaluate your giving. Write out a simple budget, and see where your giving to God ranks (tithes, offerings, missions)
- Move your giving up one notch. Wherever it stands, move it up. Don’t let it be at the bottom. Challenge yourself to give more to God that you do to your cable bill or your cell phone.
- Do it again next year. Keep moving your giving up one notch every year, until it’s at the top of your list.
Discussion:
- Initial reactions to this topic? What jumped out at you?
- How far down the list is your monthly giving? What is below it on your budget?
- How far up are you willing to move your giving? Do you think it’s realistic that it will ever be at the top of your list? Explain.
- Read Matthew 22:37-39. How does your financial giving impact the way you view and love others?
- Is there a step you need to take based on today’s topic?
