Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.

Current research tells us that generous people are happier, have a stronger immune system,

and have more positive, life-giving relationships.

So it begs the question, how can we become more generous?

That's today. Stay with me.

I'm Dave Drewie.

And here's a surprising statistic.

If you surveyed 10 people at random and asked whether they consider themselves

generous, eight of them would say yes.

But Chip Ingram says the numbers tell a very different story, even amongst Christians.

Today on Living on the Edge, Chip names the real barriers keeping most believers from the

generous life God's design for them. And he'll give you

the first practical steps to break through. And just ahead, he'll also share something about today

being the final day of our mid-year match. So stay with us through the end of the program. Well,

here's Chip Ingram with his message, Understanding the Journey. Do you know of all the Christians in America

that 50% of all Christians give nothing to their church,

give nothing to any charitable cause?

Of all the Christians in America,

only three to five percent give what's called a tithe or 10 percent of their income. Think of that.

And that presents a problem because if we think we're generous, but we're really not,

then we're not sort of asking God to help us be more generous or learning how to be generous,

correct? So we're going to go on a journey of generosity.

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