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    The Generosity Practice

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

    Author John Mark Comer, Practicing the Way
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    PRH Christian Publishing | WaterBrook
    On sale Dec 17, 2024 | 128 Pages | 9780593603345
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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.

    Part of a series of nine core practices that together build a Rule of Life for following Jesus in the modern world, each guide can be read individually or together in any order:
    The Sabbath Practice
    The Prayer Practice
    The Fasting Practice
    The Solitude Practice
    The Generosity Practice
    The Scripture Practice
    The Community Practice
    The Service Practice
    The Witness Practice
    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
    Copyright © 2024 by John Mark Comer. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
    © Ryan Garber
    John Mark Comer is the New York Times bestselling author of eight books, including Practicing the Way, which was named Christian Book of the Year by the ECPA, and The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, which has sold more than a million copies and been translated into over twenty languages. He is a pastor and the founder of Practicing the Way, an organization working to see the renewal of apprenticeship to Jesus in our time. The Comers live in the Santa Monica Mountains just outside Los Angeles. Stay in touch at johnmarkcomer.com. View titles by John Mark Comer
    Practicing the Way helps churches form lifelong apprentices of Jesus. Our free resources are used by thousands of communities and pastors worldwide to help people be with Jesus, become like him, and do as he did. Our work is possible thanks to a group of monthly givers called The Circle and other generous givers. Learn more at practicingtheway.org. View titles by Practicing the Way

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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.

    Part of a series of nine core practices that together build a Rule of Life for following Jesus in the modern world, each guide can be read individually or together in any order:
    The Sabbath Practice
    The Prayer Practice
    The Fasting Practice
    The Solitude Practice
    The Generosity Practice
    The Scripture Practice
    The Community Practice
    The Service Practice
    The Witness Practice

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    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
    Copyright © 2024 by John Mark Comer. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

    Author

    © Ryan Garber
    John Mark Comer is the New York Times bestselling author of eight books, including Practicing the Way, which was named Christian Book of the Year by the ECPA, and The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, which has sold more than a million copies and been translated into over twenty languages. He is a pastor and the founder of Practicing the Way, an organization working to see the renewal of apprenticeship to Jesus in our time. The Comers live in the Santa Monica Mountains just outside Los Angeles. Stay in touch at johnmarkcomer.com. View titles by John Mark Comer
    Practicing the Way helps churches form lifelong apprentices of Jesus. Our free resources are used by thousands of communities and pastors worldwide to help people be with Jesus, become like him, and do as he did. Our work is possible thanks to a group of monthly givers called The Circle and other generous givers. Learn more at practicingtheway.org. View titles by Practicing the Way

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