Give or Acquire

How do you measure your growth in ministry or the things that you are doing?

It is always a tough decision whether to give away or to acquire.

Our normal mindset is once given away... that's it, it will return anymore.
The world mentality is to grab, grab and grab.

Can we say our measure of growth is by how much we gave last year and not how much we received?
Can this be ultimate measurement for growth?
Though we have financial controls and accountability.

Will God be please by a bigger building? or a fatter account?

My conviction is
if we are reaching the lost!
if we are giving to mission!
if we are drawing people to Christ!
if we are investing into the harvest field!
if we are focusing on what God called us to do... obeying the Great Commandment and fulfilling the Great Commission!

Acts 20:35
In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

for other readings :
Read Luke 12:13-21 Parable of the Rich Fool