This document discusses the biblical basis for collecting gifts and donations for those in need. It references passages that talk about providing support for ministers and saints. The key points are that Christians are instructed in 1 Corinthians 16:1-4 and other passages to regularly set aside funds to help those in need on the first day of the week. Attitudes of giving generously, urgently, and cheerfully out of love and thankfulness to God are also encouraged based on passages in 2 Corinthians.

1. LAY SOMETHING
ASIDE
1 Corinthians 16:1-4

2. TWO NEEDS IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT
• Gifts are sent to saints in need
• 1 Corinthians 16:1-4
• Gifts are collected to support the
ministering of God’s Word
• Philippians 4:16-17
• Ministers are “worthy of their wages”
• Luke 10:7, 1 Timothy 5:18

3. COLLECTION FOR THE SAINTS
• “On the first day of the week”
• Tells us when
• “As I have given orders to the churches of Galatia”
• Tells us who
• “Storing up as he may prosper”
• Tells us who
• “Whomever you approve by your letters I will send to
bear your gift to Jerusalem”
• Tells us to cut out the middle man in our giving as a church

4. ATTITUDES OF GIVING
• Liberality – 2 Cor. 8:1-3
• Urgency – 2 Cor. 8:4-5
• Grace – 2 Cor. 8:6-9
• Love – 2 Cor. 8:24- 9:4
• Cheerfulness – 2 Cor. 6-9
• Thankfulness towards our God – 2 Cor. 10-
14

5. THE WOMAN AT THE TEMPLE
• Luke 21:1-4
• And He looked up and saw the rich putting their
gifts into the treasury, 2 and He saw also a certain
poor widow putting in two mites. 3 So He
said, “Truly I say to you that this poor widow has
put in more than all; 4 for all these out of their
abundance have put in offerings for God, but she
out of her poverty put in all the livelihood that she
had.”