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What We Believe About Giving
Harvest Bible Chapel Muskoka is a gospel-driven, joyfully sacrificial,
first-fruits giving church. This means that our Elders and leadership
exhort the people to obediently respond to God's saving grace with their
whole lives, including the glad offering of their finances back to
God.
Why? Well, in the Old Testament, the people of God were commanded to
bring a literal tenth of all their increase into the house of the Lord,
as well as additional freewill and first-fruits offerings in proportion
to God's gracious blessing on their lives. This ongoing, joyfully
generous and sacrificial giving happened in response to God's amazingly
gracious gift of salvation when He rescued them from slavery in Egypt.
Today, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, we seek to follow the
intent of this Old Testament command, fueled by an even greater display
of God's infinite grace and mercy. God has accomplished the ultimate
rescue plan by giving up His one and only Son, Jesus Christ, on the
cross to rescue us from our slavery to sin and give us eternal life.
Having been saved by His amazing grace, we have all the more reason
today to respond with joyful, thankful, sacrificial giving! Just as God
gladly and entirely gave up His first and best for us in His Son, so we
too respond with thanksgiving and generosity in returning the
first-fruits (the first and best) of our labour back to God. Such
giving is not to be done "reluctantly or under compulsion" (
2 Corinthians 9:7),
but gladly, springing from a heart that has been transformed by God's
love and saving grace. So, let the gospel of Jesus Christ fuel all of
our worship, including our giving to the Lord.
How To Give
There are a few different
methods to do this, they are:
- Stop at the Welcome Table before or after any Sunday service to sign up and take home offering envelopes.
- Drop by the office anytime between Tuesday and Friday to give your donation.
- Fill out Pre-Authorized Payment form to have the amount of your choice automatically withdrawn from your bank on the dates that you select (form available for download on the right column of this page).
- Give through online banking. In order to do this, you will need to contact Paulette at finance@harvestmuskoka.com to receive your account number.
If you have any further questions, please contact the office and we would be happy to help you!