Can a business person make a big difference for God's kingdom? Well, in the 1500s, a businessman decided to break the laws of England and distribute an English language Bible. John Reinhart describes how this businessman and his staff distributed Bibles.

They would occasionally smuggle them in layers of cloth as they're doing their business transactions,

and they put them on the merchant ships and smuggle them up the arteries and the waterways and into the ports all over England.

And the Bible began to get out.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Tuesday, November 18th, 2014.

Music for Tuesday, November 18, 2014.

Generous giving.

Now I realize that topic may not seem real exciting to some of our listeners.

But today we're going to hear a story about the joy and the excitement that can come when we give generously to the Lord's work. Earlier this year, I had the privilege of speaking at the

generous giving national conference in Atlanta. I listened to several different speakers

encouraged the listeners to develop a biblical paradigm for giving. And one of the most intriguing

messages I heard was from a speaker named John Reinhart who talked about the concept of gospel

patrons. Now, you've probably heard of patrons before. For example, in the past, a patron of the arts

would support an artist so they could be free

to pursue their craft without being unnecessarily burdened by financial concerns. Well, a gospel

patron supports those who are devoted to spreading the gospel. We're about to hear that message from

John Reinhart. He's the author of a book called Gospel Patrons,

and he's going to share a riveting story of one businessman who saw what God was doing and used his talents and finances to join in that work.

Let's listen now to this message from the generous giving conference. John Reinhart

describes how he first got interested in gospel patronage. It started I was a business major in

college. Went to school at Biola University, California, small Christian school. Studied business.

I was a marketing major. My wife was sitting over here. It was an accounting major. Not really

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