What’s Funding Your Trust

Main message: Real peace and trust must be rooted in God, not in the balance of our bank accounts. Paul teaches the Corinthians to fund their trust through structured, proportional generosity that reaches beyond comfort and familiarity.

Key points:

• Examine what is “funding” your trust—if your peace rises and falls with your finances, it’s trust in money dressed in religious language.
• Generosity should extend beyond our “giving radius”; Paul calls a wealthy church to support distant, unfamiliar believers in Jerusalem.
• Trust is funded by routine, not reaction: “on the first day… each of you… set aside” — build a consistent, pre-decided rhythm of giving.
• Everyone participates: time and talent are essential but do not replace financial giving; we offer both our strength and our substance to God.
• Give by proportion, not pressure: God invites equal sacrifice, not equal amounts—“in keeping with how he is prospering.”

Scriptures mentioned:

• 1 Corinthians 16:1-4