2 Corinthians (Program #45) – The Apostle’s Fellowship Concerning the Needy Saints (4)
2 Corinthians chapters 8 and 9 are often used in campaigns for money-raising for various Christian causes or ministries. But it’s interesting, although they both deal with the matter of giving, they don’t focus on the word “giving”. In chapter 8, Paul refers to our giving as a kind of gathering, as the children of Israel gathered manna each day for their daily supply. In chapter 9, our giving is called sowing, as a farmer sow seeds in order to produce a crop, in order to meet his family’s daily need. Gathering and sowing, this is the renewed thought concerning the offering of material items to meet the needs in the Body of Christ.
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