“At the core of the generous person’s heart is this penchant for Christ’s love-the desire to receive it and to give it to everyone along the way who is in need. The generous life is not about doling out extra amounts of money. It is about reorienting the human heart in the direction of Christ so that we become transmitters of the same affection and care that Christ modeled in his time.”
Gordon MacDonald in Secrets of the Generous Life (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 2002) 13.