Make, Save, and Give All You Can
Story★★★★When John Wesley preached his great sermon on stewardship, his first division was “Make all you can,” and a deacon farmer down in front said, “That is right.” The second division was “Keep all you can, save all you can,” and the farmer said more emphatically, “That is better.” And the third division of the sermon was, “Give all you can,” and the farmer’s face dropped and he said, “That has spoiled the sermon.” Now that farmer had a vision of stewardship in making and in saving, and that is Scriptural; but he lost the vision, if he ever had it, of giving.
The point
A farmer agrees with Wesley's first two stewardship principles (make and keep) but loses his vision when Wesley reaches the third: give all you can.
Scripture
1 Timothy 6:10
Audience
Adults
Tone
Convicting · Humorous
To tell aloud
under a minute · 103 words
Subjects