Jim Carpenter

• 7 people surrendered their lives to Jesus today…6 students on Wednesday night @ The 706 – why we do what we do!!
• If you have a Middle or High School Student - GO HERE NOW & SIGN THEM UP FOR CAMP – most important thing you can do this summer!!!!!
• Talked about GENEROSITY today – I really am asking God to change my heart and this church’s heart to be THE MOST GENEROUS CHURCH on the planet!!!!
• Honestly, I don’t know exactly what that looks like, but do know it’s what we’re called to.
• These verses will MESS YOU UP - 1 Timothy 6:17-19, Proverbs 11:24-25, 2 Corinthians 9:6-11
• Hey, if you don’t believe you are RICH, go here and type in your salary.
• I’m wrestling with the question – “If Compass wasn’t here…or the local church for that matter…would anybody miss us?”
• I want us to become known as the church who gave their lives away and lived like Jesus!!
• The MOST GENEROUS person I know was JESUS – He gave His life for me!! (2 Corinthians 9:15)
• Thanks for being MESSED UP enough as a church to do something about it – the Marta Givens Video story on Sunday about adopting 3 children from Haiti was AMAZING and challenged me BIG TIME!!
• Yes, it’s true…own it…most Christians are not GENEROUS because we’re GREEDY…
• …but, I also believe there’s another layer below that – we don’t understand GOD’S GRACE!!
• THAT ALONE BLOWS me away – when I look at the cross, it makes me want to put Him FIRST and give Him my VERY BEST!!
• If you have an issue with Generosity, it’s a HEART problem, NOT a money problem (Matthew 6:21)
• Some of you are blessed with a burden – a heart that is disturbed enough to take action.
• Don’t Complain, Avoid, or Appease it, but rather let it MESS with you and MOVE you to Action!!
• By the way – that’s what God did – John 3:16!!!!
• I’m praying for a heart that asks “What can I GIVE UP FOR God, rather than what can I GET FROM God?!!”
• I love the story of Nehemiah because his first response was “LET’S DO THIS!!”
• Nehemiah’s heart was DISTURBED enough to take action, BROKEN by his disobedience, and was WILLING to give EVERYTHING!!
• Jesus never said “I want SOMETHING.” He said, “I want EVERYTHING!!”
• I don’t have all the answers and I don’t even know the questions…but I DO KNOW God has made a BIG ASK of His church, He has strategically PLACED us here, and He wants us to BE OBEDIENT and GENEROUS however He Prompts us!!
• LET’S DO THIS!!!!!!!!!

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