Well, although we don't always feel wealthy, evangelicals in America, and in many parts of the

West are some of the wealthiest people in world history.

We have everything that we need, food, clothes, houses, cars, jobs, education,

savings accounts, vacations, and more. Yet for many churches, God's generosity toward us has not resulted in our

generosity toward others. Welcome to the Radical with David Platt podcast, the latest sermons from teacher, author, and pastor David Platt

delivered weekly.

We're so glad that you have joined us.

You can find thousands of more free resources over at our website radical.net. Well often we

have been content to stockpile God's resources rather than use them for the

spread of the gospel and in today's new message David Platt highlights

giving as one of 12 biblical traits of the church. Rather than listening to the culture,

we should be listening to scripture to see how God would

have us use the resources he has entrusted to us.

Here's David Platt with a sermon from the 12 Traits of a biblical church series on giving from 1st Corinthians chapter 16.

If you have a Bible, let me invite you to open me to Acts chapter 2. If you don't have one, let me encourage you to maybe find somebody around you that does.

We're actually going to camp out in 1st Corinthians chapter 16, but I want us to start in Acts Chapter 2, and while you're turning there,

I want to welcome those of you and Prince William and Montgomery County and Louden and

the Wharf and different micro sites.

We are jumping back into our series on 12 traits of a biblical

church. So our whole aim is to open our Bibles and just ask the question, what does God say we should be, we should do as a church?

We don't want to do church according to our

to our traditions.

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