From Getting More to Giving More

As kingdom-minded business owners, our purpose is greater than making a profit. God intends our businesses to glorify Him. One way we can glorify Him is by viewing our business finances through the lens of Biblical generosity. While we need to ensure our books are maintained in compliance with professional accounting standards, our financial strategies should be based on Scripture, which includes commands for generosity: caring for the poor and supporting God's laborers, for example. This doesn't always come naturally and requires us to develop a new mindset in alignment with God's heart.

Key Verses:

God provides the ability to gain wealth (Deut 8:17-18) and He also commands us to be generous with that wealth for His purposes (I Tim 6:17-19).

Generosity doesn't typically happen naturally - our sin natures make us selfish. We have to prepare our hearts for generosity, plan for generosity, and practice generosity.

God called us…