Welcome to Sunday Fuel! This series of questions is designed to assist your personal reflection and fellowship with others about the sermon from this past Sunday.
Go to This Sunday’s Sermon (start at 28:07)
1. Being generous is challenging. We tend to have a selfish streak that tempts us to keep ourselves in the center of our lives. What do you fear you will lose if you’re generous? How does the cost seem to exceed the gain? Is there an idol underneath that is competing for your love and worship? Take time to honestly confess these to the Lord.
2. What do you struggle to give to Christ? Consider A.W. Tozer’s observation: “Whatever is given to Christ is immediately touched with immortality.” How might this help you as you count the cost and reframe your reframe your perspective on generosity?
3. Meditate on Phil 4:19: “And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” What does this verse tell you about God’s glory and trustworthiness? What gospel benefits have you already received? How does this truth comfort your fears or confront your selfishness or idolatry? Pray for the conviction and trust that God will take care of you.
4. What opportunity to worship can you take this week? What is one step toward generosity you can take? Are there people in your life you can walk with through your finances, prayers, presence? Do they need the good news of the Gospel?
If you cannot think of someone right now, can you generously give your time to pray for: 1) Our church’s needs in our campus expansion process, 2) the faithfulness needed to stick to our commitments made in the Generosity Initiative earlier this year, 3) that Lighthouse would be a church that gives continues to generously steward the resources given to us, 4) For Logos Community Church, their pastors and their ministry?
Thank you, church family, for your giving that allows Lighthouse to be generous.