Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.

I have never met a person who exercised an act of kindness, who made a sacrifice financially, who saw a life change, and then

turned to me and said, you know, I'm just so tired of being a generous person. The fact is we all

want to be more generous, but something gets in the way. How do we solve that? Stay with me.

That's today. Hello, I'm Dave Drouy, and today

on Living on the Edge, Chip Ingram shares what he calls his generosity manifesto, a declared written-down

set of intentions about how he is going to live. And to get there, he takes us on a journey

through the entire Bible,

from Abel's offering in Genesis 4, all the way to the tree of life in Revelation, tracing a single

stunning thread, seeds. The message of the entire Bible, Chip argues, is about what you

sow, what dies, and what grows. And once you see it, you cannot

unsee it. Well, now here's Chip with his message titled, My Generosity Manifesto.

I want to share with you how you can actually become extraordinarily kind and extraordinarily

generous. In fact, on the front of your notes, I've

actually decided I'm going to make it my manifesto. It doesn't have to be yours, but this is mine.

This is before God, and so I'm going public with this. You'll notice what a manifesto is.

It is a published verbal declaration of intentions, of your motives or your views on an issue.

So it's public, right?

I published it.

And the real thing here is that, notice it says, to promote a new idea with a prescribed notions for carrying out the changes.

And I'm going to share with you a new idea for me and the prescribed

changes for my life. And I just have this sneaking feel that a lot of you are going to want to

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