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Pentecost Season · Thanksgiving Day USA · Year A

2 Corinthians 9:6-15

Sowing Generously

The Sower, Vincent van Gogh
The Sower, Vincent van Gogh, 1888Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
A sower against a huge yellow sun, the whole field laid in with violet and gold straight from the tube. Van Gogh painted the subject over thirty times, always after Millet.The one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly: these readings all use sowing for giving, and this is the most unstinting painting of it.Vincent van GoghVan Gogh (1853-1890) trained first for the ministry and preached in a Belgian mining district before taking up painting, which he did seriously for only the last decade of his life.Van Gogh Museum, AmsterdamBuilt around the pictures Van Gogh's brother kept, and so the only place to follow his ten working years in order.Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

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“God loves a cheerful giver… you will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous.” (2 Corinthians 9:7, 11)

In this section, Paul speaks of the blessing that results from cheerful giving as another reason for the Corinthians to participate in the collection.

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What is Paul teaching about giving?

Paul urges glad, generous giving: the one who sows generously reaps generously, God supplies the giver, and the result is thanksgiving overflowing to God (2 Corinthians 9:6–15).

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