Selfless, Part 3: Extravagant in Generosity

Life.Church with Craig Groeschel

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🗓️ 21 January 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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When you serve more, you take less. When you give more, you need less. When you thank more, you want less. When there’s more of God, you’re Selfless.

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0:00.0	now.
0:30.0	Hey, I'm excited that all of you are here today and I would love it if you would
0:49.2	help me settle and answer a random question. All of our churches, if you're
0:56.0	boarding an airplane and you have the choice between the window seat, the middle
1:02.4	seat, or the aisle. How many of you would say it is God's will for you to take
1:08.9	the window seat? I'm curious, window seat, window seat. How many of you would say
1:12.6	aisle just in case I have to go to the bathroom? How many of you would say middle
1:17.2	seat? Anybody at all? That is like a precursor for a hell that tells you what
1:22.6	hell is going to be like. I just wanted to establish that and answer that
1:29.4	question. If you're new with us, we're in a message series called Self Less. We live
1:37.9	in a very selfish, self-centered culture. Week number one, we talked about
1:43.4	overcoming our selfish attitude about Christ becoming bold in spirit. Last
1:49.5	week when we talked about being faithful in service. Next week I want to talk
1:54.1	about something that is very, very close to my heart. I know it will speak to a
1:58.1	lot of you. We're going to talk about being grateful in the grind. Today I want
2:03.6	to talk about overcoming our selfish attitudes and becoming extravagant
2:09.6	in generosity. Extravagant in generosity. I researched the idea of selfishness
2:17.8	just all I would understand it more so for our message series and I came across
2:22.3	an article entitled, Science Show Us We Are Selfish. I thought that was funny
2:29.8	because I don't need science to tell me that people are selfish. I just need to
2:36.4	go to the mall at Christmas time. I just need to look at a two-year-old. You never
2:41.5	ever have to have selfish lessons with a two-year-old. Today I'm going to train
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