Giving Center

Scripture speaks often about sowing and reaping. “… whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. … He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God. For the ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings to God.” (2 Cor. 9:6-12)

When you contribute to this ministry you are sowing a seed. Your seed will be planted in fertile soil that will reap a Kingdom harvest - to God’s glory!

Scripture is very clear - giving is sowing. We all know the farming terms. What happens when you sow? You reap.

An average ear of corn averages 800 kernels in 16 rows. You take a whole ear of corn and strip all the kernels off it, put each of them into the ground, and what happens? Each of those kernels will grow a stalk, and how many ears of corn are on each stalk? Two or Three. One stalk produces 2400 kernels. 2400 stalks of 3 ears which are 2400 kernels will give you 5,760,000 more kernels. 5,760,000 X 2400 = 1,392,400,000

This concept of sowing is amazing. It is not something that is lost and gone forever. It actually multiplies. This is what God says about giving. Giving is like sowing seed. Every time you give, you need to remember that you are sowing seeds and a harvest is coming.

Scripture tells us that if you keep your money, you will not do as well as if you give it. “One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want. Whoever brings blessing will be enriched, and one who waters will himself be watered.” (Proverbs 11:24-25)

To give, then, is to sow, and how well are you sowing? Are you sowing sparingly? Then you will reap sparingly. If you are sowing generously, you will reap generously. Are you sowing, or are you eating your seed? No farmer would ever eat their seed because that means there will be no harvest.

The New Testament gives us four guides to giving: We are to give freely, we are to give generously, we are to give regularly, and we are to give cheerfully. The motivation for giving is because we are thankful for what God has done in our lives.

“Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.” (3 John 1:8)