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Kliff Rodgers

Ways to Give That Aren't About Money

Sunday, February 18, 2024

Pay Attention to Others.  Generosity starts when you pay attention to someone else.  Have a meaningful connection with someone.  Spend 30 minutes with someone who seems lonely.  Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Philippians 2:3 

 

Build Bridges.  Be brave and offer a hand of forgiveness and friendship to someone on the other side of an issue you care about.  Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as Godin Christ forgave you.  Ephesians 4:32 

 

Share Knowledge and Wisdom.  You possess knowledge and wisdom that others may benefit from.  Sharing it could light up someone’s life.  Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom.  Colossians 3:16a 

 

Extend Hospitality and Enable Connections.  Host a dinner party and encourage deep conversation.  Enrich your social circle by including people who may not know each other very well.   When you give a dinner or banquet, do not invite your friends, or your brothers, or your relatives, or your rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid.  But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you.  For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.  Luke 14:12 - 14 

 

-Kliff Rodgers