At Real Hope we don’t take up a collection, in fact we never ask for money. For 2 reasons.  Firstly we don’t want anyone to ever feel uncomfortable & secondly we don’t want it to be our focus.

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    Our focus is Jesus, & bringing people to know Him.  We want to seek first His Kingdom.  So when we give, we give to Him, it’s a sign of our devotion to Him.

 

    But that means we are going to give, and not just our money, we will give our time, our resources, our very lives.  We will give our first & our best of everything.  And we will give as an act of worship to our God.

    

    Everything we have belongs to God, & we are stewards or managers making the best use of every part of our lives for Him. 

 

   One of the great things at Real Hope church is that we give away most of everything we receive, we aim for 85% to be given away.  We would rather invest in God's Kingdom, in the people He is wanting to reach, rather than in ourselves & our own church.

 

We want to be like King David & God's people who said ..

 

Yours, O Lord, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty. Everything in the heavens and on earth is yours, O Lord, and this is your kingdom. We adore you as the one who is over all things..

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But who are we that we could give anything to you?  Everything we have has come from you, and we give you only what you first gave us! .. 

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I know, my God, that you examine our hearts and rejoice when you find integrity there. You know we have done all this with good motives, we offer our gifts willingly, joyously &  wholeheartedly to you Lord. 

1 Chron 29