Our offerings are an act of worship. The offering during the worship service provides believers the opportunity to respond in gratitude to the grace, love, and mercy of God and to put their faith and trust in the Lord into action. The offering to God each Sunday is an act of worship just like confessing the Creed, singing the hymns, hearing the sermon, and engaging in prayer.
The beauty of the body of Christ is that God uses everyone in a slightly different way and those unique qualities, that each church possesses, are what God uses to create a beautiful tapestry of churches. Church growth is not about competing with the ministry down the street but more about developing the people God has planted in the local church to be used by God with their unique gifts.
It is a day on which many churches show solidarity to those without food and distribute the harvest donations they have collected among charitable organizations. The harvest festival is one of the oldest holidays still celebrated today. It is a day on which rural churches in particular are well attended.
As Luke 6:38 says, “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.