Why Do We Give?

There are more than 2300 verses in the Bible about money and possessions. More than a third of Jesus’s parables are about our relationship to wealth.


The emphasis of his teaching was not about how much we should give and to whom. It was about where our heart is – what’s most important to us and where we find security.

  • Deuteronomy 15:7

    ‘If there is among you anyone in need…, do not be hard-hearted or tight-fisted towards your needy neighbour. You should rather open your hand, willingly lending enough to meet the need, whatever it may be.’

  • Matthew 6:21

    ‘Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.’