These books made a big impact on how I view generosity in my personal and professional life. I highly recommend them.
Kristen Ishihara
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The Genius of Generosity by Chip Ingram. Ingram is a pastor, author, and founder of the Living on the Edge Ministry: Helping Christians Live Like Christians. In this short, easy-to-read book, Ingram describes how generosity is for everyone and how living a generous life, using Biblical principles, can make your life more joyful. He distinguishes our “worldly” generosity from the true Biblical understanding that God owns everything and deserves our first and our best.
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My favorite Quote from the book:
“I recently cleaned out my garage, put everything I didn’t want into bags, and made a run to Goodwill. I unloaded it, got a receipt that would allow me to write it off on taxes, and went home.
What I did in cleaning up and getting a tax write-off was wise, but it wasn’t generous. I didn’t want any of that stuff. Generosity is about giving from your heart, and a heartfelt gift is a high priority and of high quality.
What I did in cleaning up and getting a tax write-off was wise, but it wasn’t generous. I didn’t want any of that stuff. Generosity is about giving from your heart, and a heartfelt gift is a high priority and of high quality.
People who work on benevolence teams for churches and ministries have told me about many of the donations they get. “People give us stuff that they would never use themselves,” one of them said. “We get leftover food that no one would ever eat and worn-out clothes that no one would ever wear.”
It’s great for people to make donations to benevolence ministries, but for most people, it isn’t an act of generosity. The first sign of true generosity is that we give our first and our best, not what’s leftover.”
The Treasure Principle, by Randy Alcorn. Alcorn is a pastor,New York Times best-selling author and is founder of the Eternal PerspectiveMinistries. In this short, easy-to-read book, Alcorn details the freedom andjoy in understanding God owns it all and that as Christians we cannot store uptreasures here on earth, but we can store up treasure in heaven by followingthe Bible’s teaching and God’s leading for stewarding our assets and beinggenerous here on earth.
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My favorite Quote from the book:
“We’re called God’s servants, and we’re told it’s required of us that we ‘prove faithful’ (1 Cor 4:2). We’re God’s errand boys and girls, His delivery men and women.
We should keep that in mind when we set our salaries. We don’t own the store—we just work here!
Suppose you have something important you want to get to someone who needs it. You wrap it up and hand it over to the FedEx guy. What would you think if, instead of delivering the package, he took it home, opened it, and kept it?
You’d say, ‘The package doesn’t belong to him! He’s the middleman. His job is to get it from me to the person it’s intended for.’Just because God puts His money in our hands doesn’t mean He intends for it to stay there!”
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