Well, what I know about every single one of you is that you want to be generous.

Is that true?

Every single one of you, you really want to make a difference in the lives of people.

You don't want to live small.

You don't want to hold back.

Something inside of you wants to honor God, wants to make a difference, wants to be generous. In fact,

if you ask most people, hey, are you generous? Almost everybody would say, yeah, sure, yeah.

I mean, yeah, I'm generous. I mean, I'm not greedy, right? I'm not selfish. I know some people that are, but that's not me. I mean, I opened the door for someone coming into church today. Of course, I'm generous, right? I give and I'd love to give more whenever I can, and I will give more whenever I have more. But right now I've got to pay the

bills and I've got to buy coffee and I got to survive Christmas and then the credit cards

that come in later on. But yeah, sure, I'm generous. I give what I can and I'd like to give more.

And what's interesting when you think about

generosity is most people think that they're generous because they give. Every now and then we

give something. But giving and being generous, those are actually two different things. Giving and being generous, they're not the same

thing. What's the difference? Well, giving is an action, but generosity is a mindset. There's a

difference. You see, giving is something that you might do in the moment,

but generosity is an identity.

It's who you are and who you're becoming.

And what's crazy about the world that we live in,

and if you're honest, you'd probably admit this,

that most people, especially in my country, most Americans, don't

feel rich, but we really are. And most of us would say that we're generous, but we may not be.

I'm sorry to be so straightforward today, but we got to call it what it is.

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