Waverly Church of Christ

Many of you have perhaps at some point in you life heard this statement: “The gift that keeps on giving.” It is a tag line which has been used down through the years to entice people to purchase a certain product as a gift for someone.  I would like for us to look at chapter eight of Paul’s second letter to the Christians in Corinth and consider a “grace that keeps on giving.” In these verses, Paul is encouraging the saints in Corinth to give a one-time special gift to the church in Jerusalem on behalf of the poor. Here, he speaks to the Corinthians and to us as well about God’s grace as it relates to giving and about the motivation behind such giving.