The Generosity Practice

A Four-Session Companion Guide to Help You Experience the Joy of Giving

Discover the counterintuitive joy and freedom found in generosity—a Practice that reflects our happy, generous God—in this guide from New York Times bestselling author John Mark Comer and the team at Practicing the Way.

In a world driven by consumerism and self-interest, the ancient biblical practice of generosity is both radical and transformative. This Companion Guide to the Generosity Practice from Practicing the Way offers spiritual exercises, reflection questions, and guided readings across four sessions and an optional bonus session. Designed to be used with four engaging video sessions freely available online, this guide offers spiritual exercises, reflection questions, and additional resources to help you and your community.

This guide will help you:
• Lean into Jesus’ teaching that there is more joy in giving than receiving
• Identify and combat the culture of consumerism and greed
• Embrace the biblical concept of stewardship in all areas of life
• Develop a heart for the poor and marginalized
• Create a sustainable plan for generous living

Experience a life of purpose, joy, and deeper connection with God and others through the Practice of generosity.
Welcome

“There is more happiness in giving than in receiving.”—Acts 20 v 35

Few of Jesus’ teachings are more radical, counterintuitive, and disorienting to our cultural assumptions than what Jesus has to say about money and generosity. We hear constantly the Western formula of “more money = more happiness.” But Jesus boldly claims that happiness is found not in the accumulation of wealth but in a deeply relational life of giving and love.

We could not be more excited for you to go on this four-session journey of generosity. From a distance, generosity can sound like a hard practice; and it is, at first. But it quickly becomes one of the most joyful of all the practices of Jesus.

Our prayer for the coming weeks is that you begin to discover the great joy Jesus is referring to—not just the good feelings that come from practicing generosity but, ultimately, the joy that comes from participating in the inner life of God himself, the most generous being in all the universe.

May God bless you—richly—as you practice Jesus’ way of joyful generosity. —John Mark Comer and Practicing the Way
© Ryan Garber
John Mark Comer is the founding pastor of Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon, a teacher and writer with Practicing the Way, and the New York Times bestselling author of multiple books, including Practicing the Way, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, and Live No Lies. View titles by John Mark Comer

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Discover the counterintuitive joy and freedom found in generosity—a Practice that reflects our happy, generous God—in this guide from New York Times bestselling author John Mark Comer and the team at Practicing the Way.

In a world driven by consumerism and self-interest, the ancient biblical practice of generosity is both radical and transformative. This Companion Guide to the Generosity Practice from Practicing the Way offers spiritual exercises, reflection questions, and guided readings across four sessions and an optional bonus session. Designed to be used with four engaging video sessions freely available online, this guide offers spiritual exercises, reflection questions, and additional resources to help you and your community.

This guide will help you:
• Lean into Jesus’ teaching that there is more joy in giving than receiving
• Identify and combat the culture of consumerism and greed
• Embrace the biblical concept of stewardship in all areas of life
• Develop a heart for the poor and marginalized
• Create a sustainable plan for generous living

Experience a life of purpose, joy, and deeper connection with God and others through the Practice of generosity.

Excerpt

Welcome

“There is more happiness in giving than in receiving.”—Acts 20 v 35

Few of Jesus’ teachings are more radical, counterintuitive, and disorienting to our cultural assumptions than what Jesus has to say about money and generosity. We hear constantly the Western formula of “more money = more happiness.” But Jesus boldly claims that happiness is found not in the accumulation of wealth but in a deeply relational life of giving and love.

We could not be more excited for you to go on this four-session journey of generosity. From a distance, generosity can sound like a hard practice; and it is, at first. But it quickly becomes one of the most joyful of all the practices of Jesus.

Our prayer for the coming weeks is that you begin to discover the great joy Jesus is referring to—not just the good feelings that come from practicing generosity but, ultimately, the joy that comes from participating in the inner life of God himself, the most generous being in all the universe.

May God bless you—richly—as you practice Jesus’ way of joyful generosity. —John Mark Comer and Practicing the Way

Author

© Ryan Garber
John Mark Comer is the founding pastor of Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon, a teacher and writer with Practicing the Way, and the New York Times bestselling author of multiple books, including Practicing the Way, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, and Live No Lies. View titles by John Mark Comer

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