Church Health
STUDY 7 – Generosity and Self-Sustainability
LOOK BACK
How can we pray for each other?
What is the Holy Spirit saying to you? How are you responding?
LOOK UP
Memory Verse: Acts 2:44–45 All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.
Key Truth: Believers help each other and meet needs.
Story to Memorize: Acts 2:44–45
Act it Out: Act out selling something and giving to help another believer.
Questions:
What did the believers do with their possessions? (Shared and sold them to help others.)
Who did they give to? (Anyone who had a need.)
What does this show about them? (They loved people more than possessions.)
Who can we give to? Are there widows and orphans we can help in some way?
How can you start giving 10 percent of your income right away?
“Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ “In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the LORD Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.” Malachi 3:8-10
How will your house church start taking up offerings weekly?
LOOK AHEAD
Memorize Acts 2:44-45
Start giving regularly
Pass on what you have learned to the disciples you are making.
Commission/Pray: Ask God for His power to help make disciples and obey his word.