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6 Year Old Perspective on Giving Church Offerrings

This morning in church, I wrote our pre-determined tithe check and remembered I had a $20 bill in my purse as well.  I had received it for my birthday (over a month ago), and had forgotten about it until this moment.  I felt compelled to give it to my six year old daughter to let her drop it in the offerring plate as it passed by.  I gave our check to our eight year old daughter. Later, in the car, when my husband asked if I had given our tithe (he had been in a men's classroom study), our six year old was excited to share with her daddy that she had also put in $20. I said, "It was my birthday money.  I decided we did not need it." My 6 year old daughter replied, without missing a beat, "Yeah, we don't need $20, we need more!" I found this really comical and precious to see her ability to think about giving completely differently than I was.  She already understands that we cannot outgive God (Malachi 3:10).  Even I was looking at giving the $20 as...