This is Josh from the Radical Team, covering for Stacey Martin.

How much thought do you give to your offering when your church gathers each Sunday?

Is it a significant part of your worship?

Raise it merely a routine that you go through in March 1241 through 44.

Jesus uses the seemingly insignificant, yet sacrificial gift of a poor widow to challenge

many of our practices and assumptions about giving and money.

By God's grace, our approach to giving can change when we realize that God already owns

everything, including our money, and that given to him is a privilege that should be motivated

by his grace in the gospel.

In this message, David Platt contrasts worldly giving with Godly giving.

This is the Radical with David Platt podcast.

Here's David with the message titled, worldly giving and Godly giving.

All right, on to our text today, and as I'm speaking here at Tyson's right now, we're

taking up an offering in this room, and different locations do this at different times.

Some of you might be taking up now as well.

It's a pretty routine part of our worship.

One that, if we're not careful, we can hardly notice as someone passes something to us,

and we're just going to pass it on to the next person, almost mindlessly.

For some of us, we don't think about it because we don't really give much at all.

Maybe we throw in some money here or there, or maybe not at all.

And for others of us, we kind of mindlessly pass it because we give another ways.

At other times, maybe we have direct deposit set up or some other automatic means of giving.

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