You Can't Outgive God | Tandem | Ashley Wooldridge

Main message: Put God first in your finances — you can't outgive God — and moving from "tipping" to tithing and then generosity removes resistance and opens you to God's provision.

Key points:

• Tandem-bike analogy: when God leads (front seat) he reduces resistance; coasting (not participating) leaves you struggling.
• Three types of giving: tipping (God is a sidekick; no priority), tithing (bringing the first 10% to the local church), and generosity (giving above the tithe as God leads).
• Biblical principles and promises: sowing generously reaps generously (2 Cor 9), and God invites you to "test" him in the tithe (Malachi 3:10); you cannot outgive God.
• Practicals about tithing: tithe = 10%; the tithe is "brought" to the storehouse/local church (not redirected at will); whether to give gross or net is left to prayer and conviction.
• Pastoral encouragement and illustrations: no guilt or coercion; personal and congregational stories (family example of a daughter giving 40% and a couple’s generosity) used to show God’s faithfulness when people put him first.

Scriptures mentioned: Matthew 6:33, Matthew 6 (context), 2 Corinthians 9:6-11, Malachi 3:10, Luke 12, Ephesians