Self-Awareness Leads to Generosity
"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."
--Jesus (Luke 18:25)
Building a culture of generosity begins with a healthy and realistic understanding of your wealth status. Your donors will usually want to look around their local community to gauge their comparative position, but a more global view gives an accurate perspective.
Go to a web site like GlobalRichList.com to face the facts. You and your donors will be surprised to learn just how wealthy you really are. You are rich! And that knowledge changes things. It's easy to see the guy living in the bigger house as the rich man, but it's shockingly different when the person looking back at you in the mirror also qualifies for that category. Now you too must figure out how to navigate the eye.
Generosity is an attitude that results from the maturity to recognize that what you own only temporarily belongs to you.
Generosity doesn't happen by accident--it is a choice that is made every day.
Generosity has lasting rewards--some into eternity.
