The Generosity of the Macedonian Churches

The Generosity of the Macedonian Churches
2 CORINTHIANS 8.1-7

A magazine in Britain has a regular cartoon feature entitled ‘Scenes You Don’t Often See’. It’s a sharp little comment on the selfishness of modern life, and has included drawings of such unlikely scenes as someone buying two copies of the magazine sold on the street by homeless people, or of a teenager in a railway carriage turning off his personal stereo in case it annoyed the people sitting next to him. We smile, because we wish people were like that – maybe we wish that we were like that! – and we know that, in normal life, they aren’t and we aren’t...