What's on your plate?

Biblical occurrences:

• Love - 686 times
• Grace - 206 times
• Prayer - 367 times
• Believe - 289 times

Give - 1433 times...

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• Is this not a red herring?
• Giving is a major Biblical theme!

What's on your plate?

"By this we may know we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way he walked..."

1 John 2:6

What did Jesus give?..

What's on your plate?

Matthew 19:21

"If you would enter life ...'keep'...

"If you would be perfect...'give'..."

...he went away sad, because he had great possessions."

What's on your plate?

It got me thinking...

• Why was he sad!?
• He was given the answer he was looking for...
• You may not know what you can give?!

"Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common."

Acts 4:32

What's on your plate?

You may think:

• What do I have to give?
• I don't think I have much to contribute...
• What I have is so small that it wouldn't make a difference if I gave or not!

Jesus feeds 15,000 people!

How God should have acted!!!?

• Why didn't God send a millionaire to pay for all the food!?
• Why didn't a generous baker turn up?!

- Even the smallest gift, in the hands of Jesus, can feed the biggest crowd. -

"It's not what you have, but what you do with what you have..."

What's on your plate?

- Mark 12:44 -

What's on your plate?

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'The boy and the plate.'