Kingdom stewardship starts with your spiritual commitment, not with the stuff you use or the stuff you want.

Dr. Tony Evans says our motivation for giving is more important than any tangible gifts we can offer.

God doesn't want stuff from you when he can't have you. He wants you first.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

Obviously, some people are in a position to give bigger gifts than others.

But Dr. Evans explains today that what you give matters less than why you give. Let's join

him in 2 Corinthians chapter 9 as he begins today's message. Today I want to talk to you

about the motivation. What should be the motivation for kingdom stewardship? God is the king.

We are the managers of that which he already owns,

time, talents, and treasures.

Well, in the middle of this major stewardship passage,

he gives us the greatest verse in all of the Bible

on the motivation for the stewardship, the managerial responsibilities we have,

and that motivation is summed up in one word in verse 8. It is the word grace.

Verse 8 says, and God is able to make all grace abound to you so that always having all sufficiency in everything

you may have an abundance for every good deed. God does not want you to be manipulated in the

stewardship. He wants you to respond to his grace.

So let's define grace again.

Grace is defined in the Bible as God's inexhaustible supply of goodness that he does for us what we cannot do for ourselves.

Grace is unmerited favor where God does for us what we do not deserve, could never earn, and would never be able to repay. All of life is the result of the grace of God. You wouldn't even be here if it weren't for God's

favor that has been dispensed to you in a multiplicity of forms. Let's break down grace a little

further. Grace is always free.

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