Raised Sights
Theme of the Week: Untamed Generosity
Sunday, December 7, 2008
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Who Said It … Mike Erre
Mike Erre is the teaching pastor at Rock Harbor Church in Costa Mesa, California, where he lives with his wife, Justina, and their two children. He's a graduate of Talbot School of Theology and is the author of Why Guys Need God.
Mike is an avid fan of Buckeye football, the music of Pearl Jam, and the mythology of Star Wars. The lyric that best describes him, he claims, is Beck's "In a world of chimpanzees, I am a monkey." What He Said … Raised Sights
My wife and I recently refinanced our house and cashed out what was (for us) a large sum of money. I spent several weeks dreaming of ways to spend it.
It was near Christmas, and I would been studying the birth of Jesus and what it would have meant to those who heard about it first. As I was praying and prepping for the messages I would teach in the weeks of December, God brought into my mind that to take this whole "love thy neighbor" thing seriously, my wife and I should give away more money than we spent on ourselves this Christmas. (Although I didn't realize it at the time, God had placed the same message in my wife's heart.)
With tears of great joy and freedom, my wife and I agreed and then proceeded to ask the dangerous and wonderful question, "Okay, Lord, who's going to get all this money?"
We had a blast giving it away and living the revolution of Christmas as we celebrated the giving of God's Son—what Paul called "a gift too wonderful for words!"
Adapted from The Jesus of Suburbia (W Publishing, 2006) by permission.
Copyright © 2008 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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Teach me, Lord, to give more like You do: ungrudgingly, freely, lavishly.
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