Generosity Testimonial 02: Sunny

Rule of Life

Practicing the Way

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 700 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Sunny believes that how we use money is a concrete reflection of what we truly value. That conviction, along with the understanding that everything he owns is really God’s, has produced a lifestyle of increasing generosity in his family. As an engineer, Sunny knows that measuring and reporting is key to improving, and he’s given that same scrutiny to his stewardship; he and his family check on their giving regularly and seek to give 1% more each year – not because they feel they must, but because they sense God’s pleasure in the practice of generosity.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Rule of Life podcast. Today we're going to hear a story of how the practice of generosity
0:10.3	shows up in the everyday lives of real people. Now Jesus warns us to watch out for greed. So here's
0:17.5	a story of what it's like to live that out with Sunny Grover.
0:28.0	Hi, my name is Sunny Grover, and my family and I have been deeply impacted by this practice of generosity.
0:31.4	I grew up born and raised in India, New Delhi, India.
0:33.0	My wife and I have two boys.
0:34.9	Ethan is 13.
0:36.3	Liam is 9.
0:38.3	Was in India until I was in 10th grade, and then my folks decided to move to the US to Portland, Oregon.
0:42.3	Went to a very small, went to Oregon State University in a small town called Corvallis in Oregon.
0:48.3	At that university, came to be a believer in Jesus through just conversations with my roommate,
0:55.0	and then started going to church, became a management consultant,
0:58.0	consulted for a variety of companies.
1:00.0	One of them was Nike, joined Nike full-time in 2016.
1:06.0	Probably the most salient conviction came from the pastor of the church that I came to faith at.
1:15.7	The senior pastor was an engineer at Hewlett-Packard and then felt like God was calling him to do
1:20.2	something different. So not someone that went to a big theology school or had big, you know,
1:24.8	deep context in theology, etc. But he always used to say,
1:29.3	your pocketbook is a good reflection of your faith. Because in our day and age, in our society,
1:38.9	money is the most tangible asset that someone has. So what they do with their money is a good reflection of what they
1:46.7	value. So people can say a lot about what they value, but when you see how people spend their
1:51.8	money, you start to get a good sense for what they really value. And for whatever reason, that
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