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What’s wrong, if anything, with a freewill offering given more out of a sense of obligation than a sense of love?
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IMO, motives. Only the giver knows what they are. If you give out of obligation because it is in service to the God you love and you are striving to be more Christlike, then it is still love. That said, if you don’t do it because you love the recipient, then you are still in need of growth.
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The heart. If you are giving anything out of an obligation, keep it. God loves a cheerful giver. Why? Because the giving heart is precious to Him.
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Why do it?
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Because bills need to be paid wether you feel it or not.God does love a cheerful giver.
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They are not necessarily mutually exclusive. The Christian lives under a debt of love to his Sa ior and by extension to his church. On the other ha.d God loves a cheerful giver, onewho gives out of love rather than complusion. Ti d where you fit between the two and give accordingly.
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God loves a cheerful giver
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Sometimes love does give us a “sense” of obligation. A love obligation comes from a sense that we owe an obligation to those that we love. James spoke of faith without works. Paul spoke of works without love.
So if our works comes from a sense of obligation which come from a sense of love? -
Because God loves a cheerful giver, that’s why. ?
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If live constrains us then it is an obligation or debt of love is it not?
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