Deeper Wider, Part 4: Obstacles // Joel Thomas

North Point Community Church

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 16 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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All of us face obstacles to generosity. The common denominator for our obstacles is a desire for more. The apostle Paul taught that true wealth isn't found in accumulation but in contentment. And he shows what it looks like to place our hope not in riches but in God who richly provides.

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0:00.0	Well, I'm thrilled to be continuing our series today. And if you don't have any idea,
0:04.5	if you're joining us for the first time, or you've just logged down, you're trying to figure out
0:08.5	what we're all talking about. We've been in this new season. It's not just a new series,
0:12.4	this new season of generosity. We've been talking about generosity. We've been talking about
0:16.2	this deeper, wider initiative. And really what it's all about is we're exploring what it looks like to
0:20.9	maximize our generosity individually and collectively so that we can have a wider impact
0:26.5	locally and globally. We've been entrusted with a lot, like as many of you, you've been
0:30.6	trusted with a lot. And we want to be great stewards of what we've been entrusted with. And if you
0:35.9	haven't been with us, we've been taking a pretty in-depth look at the differences between cultural generosity and New Testament generosity,
0:42.4	which they're vast. And I don't have time to recap all that content. But here's what I'll say.
0:46.9	The content's been incredible. You should definitely go back and catch up on the content you
0:50.2	missed. But here's why the content's incredible is because to be really honest with you,
0:55.2	it's hard to argue with generosity, right? I mean, generosity in general is a difficult thing to
1:01.2	argue with because who isn't for more generosity? I mean, more generosity in our world,
1:06.0	more generosity in our lives. We would like people be more generous towards us,
1:09.8	not just financially,
1:11.0	but just in life. We all need patience. We all need help. More generosity, we know this.
1:15.9	In our world, it makes our world more better, right? Like more generosity. It's just more better
1:20.6	for all of us. In fact, here's the thing. If not, most of us, if not all of us, we want to be more generous. You wish you could be more
1:30.2	generous. Some of you, you wish you were in a position. In fact, you've been listening to us and
1:33.7	you've been thinking, man, I really aspire to this. This is what I want to do. So today,
1:38.4	I just wanted to jump in. I'm jumping in the conversation. And I want to talk about what I think
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