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INTRO
Good morning!
My name is Ryan, I’m one of the pastors here at Georgianna.
It’s so good to be with you in worship today…
[MENTION LIVE STREAM AT 9:45]
Pastor Corky is out of town this weekend, but he is still working!
He is serving as Georgianna’s pastor as he officiates the Davis-Woeste (WAY-STEE) wedding for Kyle and Alex.
And so we certainly wish those families the best this weekend.
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Today we’re wrapping up our “Oneness” series with how we can be one through what we give .
Over the past few weeks we have looked at how we are ONE through our PURPOSE together… through the HOPE that we carry with us… through the HEART that is driving us...
And all of those aspects represent what we believe together… what we give assent to...
but Today we’re talking about how we literally put our money where our mouth is.
ME
But honestly I kind of feel like I’m preaching to the choir here!
Like have you been around here for the past few weeks?
$20,000 has already been sent off for Hurricane relief!
Over $100,000 raised at a Pie Auction!
Church there is no money tree planted out back! No… it happens because you are people who GIVE!
SIDENOTE: A while back Allie told me she picked up a money tree at Home Depot…
***I’m going to go ahead and save you some heartache now… It is not what you think it is...
I have never been so disappointed in my life when I burst out the door into our backyard.
No money tree… this stuff happens because you are generous and you are faithful.
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You see, I’ve been at churches where a giving sermon wasn’t just a one time thing… but it may be an entire series of several weeks!
That culminated with pledge cards at the end where you signed on the dotted line!
I’ve been at churches where it wasn’t so much about bad weather threatening the safety of your community.
Bad weather meant we might have to close the church for a Sunday… and that was threatening the offering!!!
We don’t even pass a plate here!
I’ve been at places where there is a mad scramble at the end of the year just to be sure we can make the budget… as if there’s not already enough going on in December!
But there’s something different here… And, truly, I have never seen anything like it.
Georgianna is just full of people who give.
It’s almost like we’re trying to take Jesus seriously or something… CRAZY!
But let me tell you something else the I have learned about this place… Georgianna is full of surprises.
This place has blown my mind over and over again over the past 17 months… and I’m sure that will continue.
And here’s the mind-blowing thought that I’ve had.
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Now track with me for just a minute…
$100,000 Pie Auction;
$20,000 in Hurricane Relief,
1600 uniform shirts provided for Cambridge Elementary students (at $10 per shirt… that’s $16,000),
$160,000 on Compassion Sunday,
$27,000 to Ukraine when the crisis started (with more sent since),
$36,000 to Kentucky,
$64,000 to Life Recaptured… this is just since last Christmas… and I’m sure it’s not a complete list...
Here’s my crazy thought… What if this is still just a portion of Georgianna’s potential?
***LOOK… I even made a pie chart to show you :)
You might think I’m being greedy, right?
Like dude… be happy with that… that’s amazing… AND IT IS!
But what if God still has more in store for us… for us as a church?
For the community we live in… for the world we live in?
And what if God has more in store for you personally?
Because when you are generous and you are faithful… it changes you.
WE
And so… YES, I feel like I’m preaching to the choir today… BUT
*Maybe it will encourage you to keep being generous and give you a "shot in the arm."
*Or maybe it will push you to make that first generosity jump and give you a "kick in the pants" :)
So there’s a spectrum here… somewhere between shot in the arm and kick in the pants :)
*Or maybe you need a reminder for why we do what we do in the first place, and why it matters that you are faithful.
*Or maybe you're just looking for your best next step.
Maybe, like most of us, a $3000 pie is out of reach, but you're ready to start "giving yourself away" and be one with the mission here at Georgianna.
Listen… before we get too far into this today…
OF COURSE… Of course what you give is completely personal to you.
I don’t know what anyone gives… Corky doesn’t know… we don’t WANT to know.
It is not anyone’s intent that you feel condemnation or judgment.
No one responds in any healthy way if it’s pressure that they sense.
But instead I hope there is a Holy Spirit nudge that might happen to us all today.
Is that fair?
OPENING PRAYER
I pray that you would take a tough topic that sometimes feels maybe a little intrusive… and that you would season it with your grace.
GOD
Throughout scripture… and really just throughout our everyday life… we find a couple of different models… or categories of the way people give.
And they’re both reflected in 2 beautiful stories in the gospel of Mark.
You may already be aware that Mark is one of the 4 books that about the life and ministry of Jesus… Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
They’re called gospels which means good news… because Jesus is absolutely GOOD NEWS.
Amen?
And even though it comes 2nd in that list… we’re pretty sure Mark was written first.
Mark is the shortest of them all… and he really just makes sure to cover the important details.
It was probably written at a time of great persecution of the church...
And we don’t know for sure… but those 3 details make us wonder about Mark’s purpose.
It was written first, it is relatively short, and it was written in a tumultuous time.
And so if this is the setting where Mark is writing then we wonder if Mark is just simply written in a hurry… to encourage the early church in persecution… and maybe because Mark knows his own days are numbered.
And when you consider all of these things happening… then it makes you think that what Mark chose to include here is extremely important.
And as Mark covers just the basics he chooses to include these two stories we’ll talk about this morning… and this is significant… with women as the heroes.
Remember this is a time when women and children had no rights and no status…
Like right now we live in a culture that is all about gender equality… a great thing.
But in that culture it would be significant to feature women in this way.
I say all of this to say… Women… girls… God’s story honors you.
It lifts you up.
Mark doesn’t even talk about the birth of Jesus… but he does stop to tell these two women’s stories.
And specifically how much smarter these women are than the men around them...
There is truth in this book people!
Let’s go to Mark 14 together...
PASSAGE
Mark 14:3–9 (NIV)
3 While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper,
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a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard.
She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.
4 Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, “Why this waste of perfume? 5 It could have been sold for more than a year’s wages and the money given to the poor.”
And they rebuked her harshly.
6 “Leave her alone,” said Jesus.
“Why are you bothering her?
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