Offerings part 1

Many people think an offering is the time in a church service where the worship team plays a song and the ushers pass around the plate. The Pastor himself might even say, "at this time we are going to take up an offering." However, an offering is far more then that. An offering is something that is offered in worship or devotion. So really an offering can be just about anything that we give to God. Paul in writing to the church in Corinth said, "do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not you own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's." (I Corinthians 6:19, 20) We as Christians must come to the realization that we do not belong to ourselves, but to God. This will affect what we offer to God, and the motive of our offering.