In Sunday School this week raised the topic of giving came up. My ears pricked up as this is something Elisabeth and I have been discussing how can do "better" with. At issue is obviously not the 10% discussed in the Bible but rather how far to go above that when God has blessed you beyond your needs. (Needs is of course completely subjective but if one considers that when we graduated we were able to live well within our means and now that I have moved up in my career I have earning significantly more, it seems clear that we don't "need" all that we have been given even with two kids.) But how much more should we give? At some point one would think that the percentage could increase... say everything over X,000 dollars we would give away 20% and everything over Y,000 (where Y>X) would be at 50%? Anyway, I believe the goal that we should set our sites on is to be sacrificial and extravagant in our giving. Now the challenge is to live up to these words as we set the target.
11:01:16 PM
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