Title: Generosity #grace #stewards #thatblessedlife
Author: Steve Lombardo II
Text: 2 Corinthians 9:6-15
Introduction
1. When I was around 27 years old, I became a senior pastor of a church. I say "senior pastor" because I was the only pastor and I just wanted everybody to call me senior pastor. It felt good. So when I took the pastorate position in a country church, I felt like I had some sweet spots in some areas of preaching.
2. I loved to preach the gospel and call people to repentance. I mean, it's the best news ever that you can be forgiven for all your sin-not only past and present sin, but future sin-because God loves you and died on the cross for your sin. It's Jesus. It's the gospel message. I loved the message and I loved to preach it.
3. I also liked to talk about apologetics, to share with people that there are reasons to believe that what is in the Bible is true. Jesus was a real person Who died in Jerusalem and rose from the dead on the third day. There are reasons to believe that. Today I enjoy preaching through books of the Bible and speaking to the culture we find ourselves in, considering how we are to live and make an impact in our day and age. Are we to be people who simply resist, pushing culture away and keeping our families behind closed doors? Are we to stay in our little holy huddles? Or are we to be out in the world, mixing it up with people and creating a new Christ culture in the world? I would say the last option is the right one.
4. But one of the areas I very rarely preached about was this matter of money. I think there were a couple of different reasons behind that. First, I didn't have a lot of money at the time, so I didn't feel like I had the experience to talk about it with much authority. We also had a lot of debt and that made it hard for me to speak with confidence. By the way, we have paid down a massive amount of debt, but let me just tell you that we still have student loan debt. I'm 40 years old and ...
Author: Steve Lombardo II
Text: 2 Corinthians 9:6-15
Introduction
1. When I was around 27 years old, I became a senior pastor of a church. I say "senior pastor" because I was the only pastor and I just wanted everybody to call me senior pastor. It felt good. So when I took the pastorate position in a country church, I felt like I had some sweet spots in some areas of preaching.
2. I loved to preach the gospel and call people to repentance. I mean, it's the best news ever that you can be forgiven for all your sin-not only past and present sin, but future sin-because God loves you and died on the cross for your sin. It's Jesus. It's the gospel message. I loved the message and I loved to preach it.
3. I also liked to talk about apologetics, to share with people that there are reasons to believe that what is in the Bible is true. Jesus was a real person Who died in Jerusalem and rose from the dead on the third day. There are reasons to believe that. Today I enjoy preaching through books of the Bible and speaking to the culture we find ourselves in, considering how we are to live and make an impact in our day and age. Are we to be people who simply resist, pushing culture away and keeping our families behind closed doors? Are we to stay in our little holy huddles? Or are we to be out in the world, mixing it up with people and creating a new Christ culture in the world? I would say the last option is the right one.
4. But one of the areas I very rarely preached about was this matter of money. I think there were a couple of different reasons behind that. First, I didn't have a lot of money at the time, so I didn't feel like I had the experience to talk about it with much authority. We also had a lot of debt and that made it hard for me to speak with confidence. By the way, we have paid down a massive amount of debt, but let me just tell you that we still have student loan debt. I'm 40 years old and ...
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