God is so generous! He sent His Son to give His life to save us. So, in response to His radical generosity, we give freely so others can know Him. And the best part is that He uses our generosity to impact countless people and communities both here and around the world!
To be fully-devoted followers of Jesus, God calls us all to give cheerfully. This is our opportunity to worship our Creator through our finances and acknowledge that He owns it all; and we are simply stewards of what He entrusts to us. The first is the “tithe” (the Hebrew word translates literally to mean “tenth”). When you give the first 10% of your income to the Lord through the church, you put God first, and the Bible says He blesses the rest! It’s the one area God invites you to test Him.
“Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.”—Malachi 3:10 NIV
Another type of giving is an offering, which is when you give generously above and beyond your tithe to meet a specific need or simply out of gratitude for the Lord’s goodness.
“And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all that there were no needy persons among them.”—Acts 4:33a
At Calvary, the majority of giving is done through safe, secure digital payments. Automated (or recurring) giving is one of the most intentional ways to stay consistent in financial generosity.
