Our Church Covenant - #7

OUR RESPONSIBILITY AS STEWARDS – that we will cheerfully contribute of our personal and material resources according to that which God has given so to maintain a faithful and biblical ministry among us, to support the poor and to spread the gospel to the ends of the earth – Proverbs 11:24-26; 2 Corinthians 8-9; 1 Corinthians 16:2; Galatians 6:10.

Charles Hodge writes on (v.8) – ‘The real test of the genuineness of any inward affection is not so much the character of the feeling as it reveals itself in our consciousness, (but) the course of action to which it leads. Many persons, if they judge themselves by their feelings, would regard themselves as truly compassionate; but a judgment founded on their acts would lead to the opposite conclusion. So many suppose they really love God because they are conscious of feelings which they dignify with that name; yet they do not obey Him. It is thereby by the fruits of feeling we must judge of its genuineness both in ourselves and others.'