Determined Giving
Historical Account★★★★Determined Giving ln stories of survivors of the Nazi death camps, an attitude of determined giving was one of the things that distinguished the survivors from those who perished. If a prisoner was on the verge of starvation, but he had a crust of bread or a scrap of a potato that he could share with his comrade in suffering, he was psychologically and spiritually capable of surviving. 1R. T. Kendall, Tithing: A Call to Serious, Biblical Stewardship (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1982), 13. lCh arles Haddon Sp\!l’geon,John Ploughman’s Talks (New York: Sheldon & Company, n.d.), 139.
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Survivors of Nazi death camps who shared their last crust of bread or potato with a suffering comrade were distinguished by an attitude of determined giving, which gave them the psychological and spiritual strength to survive.