Storyteller | Grace, Gratitude, and Generosity - October 9, 2022

October 9, 2022
Luke 17:11-19

Because we are recipients of a supernatural Grace, something we a difficulty naming but once we have experienced it, we are never the same, our posture and response to God are one of gratitude, shifting our worldview entirely.

Worship goes from being a 60-minute weekly hostage situation to being the posture we assume throughout the week. Stewardship becomes joy-filled generosity instead of being a fundraiser where the giver is constantly on the lookout for a return on their investment.

Jesus told the Samaritan man, “Get up and go on your way; your faith has made you well.” A better translation of this is, “Get us and go on your way. Your faith has saved you.” The mustard seed-sized faith that the man had transformed him from the inside out.

The same is true of us – the sinners and saints of the church.
In his book, Kingdom, Grace, and Judgment Robert Farrar Capon wrote, “Grace perennially waits for us to accept our destruction and, in that acceptance, to discover the power of the Resurrection and the Life.”

God’s generosity produces gratitude in us, moving us from wondering what’s in it for us to seeing the Kingdom building we are called to as an opportunity to be an extension of the generosity of God’s Grace.

Grace, Gratitude, and Generosity – they begin with and return to God. Such is the Kingdom of God.