Regifting Forgiveness (1 of 4)
Series: Regifting Christmas
Steve Jones
Matthew 18
Sermon Summary: God has given us the gift of forgiveness. Others need that gift from us and we can give it to them. In the process we can change their lives.
INTRODUCTION: I read this online anecdote about regifting: ''My mom is the queen of re-gifting. My father gets a really nice aftershave set every year. He never opens it, just puts it in the hall closet. My mom gets it out right before Christmas and wraps it up again. Every year he would open it up, thank my mother, and my sister and I would bust out laughing. It took him over 10 years before he finally figured out that it was the same set! There's actually another present that he opens every year, but he hasn't figured that one out yet, so I won't give it away!''
Part of the problem with giving Christmas gifts is a lot of adults, maybe most of us, already have everything we NEED, at least the STUFF we need, so we wind up maybe giving and receiving things that we don't NEED and THAT can lead to...regifting. Regifting is taking a gift that you have received and giving it to someone else. Regifting kind of has a negative connotation. Some consider it cheap or insensitive.
But I want to put a different spin on regifting and the spin is this: If you are a Christian, and most of us are, then you DO have some gifts that you can give others and these are gifts that they need. Everyone needs these gifts that YOU have. And the reason that you have these gifts is because they were given to you first. And the cool thing about THESE gifts is that even after you give them away, you still have them.
EXAMPLE: It's like a recipe. You can give a recipe away, but you still have it.
Strictly speaking the ''gifts'' I'm going to talk about this month are not the kind of ''Christmas gifts'' that you wrap up and put under a tree. I just thought that it's a good time of year to talk about and teach about and think about gifts. ...
Series: Regifting Christmas
Steve Jones
Matthew 18
Sermon Summary: God has given us the gift of forgiveness. Others need that gift from us and we can give it to them. In the process we can change their lives.
INTRODUCTION: I read this online anecdote about regifting: ''My mom is the queen of re-gifting. My father gets a really nice aftershave set every year. He never opens it, just puts it in the hall closet. My mom gets it out right before Christmas and wraps it up again. Every year he would open it up, thank my mother, and my sister and I would bust out laughing. It took him over 10 years before he finally figured out that it was the same set! There's actually another present that he opens every year, but he hasn't figured that one out yet, so I won't give it away!''
Part of the problem with giving Christmas gifts is a lot of adults, maybe most of us, already have everything we NEED, at least the STUFF we need, so we wind up maybe giving and receiving things that we don't NEED and THAT can lead to...regifting. Regifting is taking a gift that you have received and giving it to someone else. Regifting kind of has a negative connotation. Some consider it cheap or insensitive.
But I want to put a different spin on regifting and the spin is this: If you are a Christian, and most of us are, then you DO have some gifts that you can give others and these are gifts that they need. Everyone needs these gifts that YOU have. And the reason that you have these gifts is because they were given to you first. And the cool thing about THESE gifts is that even after you give them away, you still have them.
EXAMPLE: It's like a recipe. You can give a recipe away, but you still have it.
Strictly speaking the ''gifts'' I'm going to talk about this month are not the kind of ''Christmas gifts'' that you wrap up and put under a tree. I just thought that it's a good time of year to talk about and teach about and think about gifts. ...
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