Ways to Give
Online Giving
You may give online with your credit/debit card. Make a one time gift or set up a recurring gift. It’s simple, quick and secure.
You may give by texting from your phone (see www.churchinroundrock.com/texttogive for details) or you may Give Online Now
Check
You may mail your check payable to The Church in Round Rock to the following address:
The Church in Round Rock, 4205 Pebblestone Trail, Round Rock, TX 78665
Alternatively, you may use your bank’s bill pay service to send gifts to the above payee and address.
Cash
If you wish to give a cash offering to the church in Round Rock, or, if you wish to make an anonymous cash love offering to any saints in need, you may:
(1) take a manila offering envelope from the envelope holder on the offering box
(2) print your name on the “From:” line of the manila offering envelope (printing your name is optional)
(3) on the “For:” line, please indicate what the offering is for. If the offering is for a person, then print the name of that person on the “For:” line (this is required). NOTE: Envelopes where the “For:” line is left blank will automatically be recorded as an offering to the General Fund.
(4) drop the completed manila envelope into the offering box slot
The offering box is located in the CIRR meeting hall.
“But take note of this: He who sows sparingly shall also sparingly reap; and he who sows with blessings shall also with blessings reap; Each one as he has purposed in his heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for God loves a cheerful giver.
And God is able to make all grace abound unto you, that, in everything always having all sufficiency, you may abound unto every good work; Even as it is written, “He has scattered abroad; he has given to the poor; his righteousness abides forever.”
Now He who bountifully supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed and cause the fruits of your righteousness to increase.”
2 Corinthians 9:6-10
“There is one who scatters and increases yet more,
and there is one who withholds what is appropriate but ends up only in want.
The blessing soul will prosper,
and he who waters will also be watered himself.
As for him who withholds grain, the people will curse him;
but blessing will be upon the head of him who sells it.”
Proverbs 11:24-26
The Christian Way of Financial Management
The Christian way of managing money is not to hold on to money. The tighter you hold on to your money, the more it dies. The more you grasp it, the more it disappears; it will evaporate like vapor. But the more you give away, the more you will have. If God’s children would learn to give more, God would have many ways to work out His miracles. Keeping back money only makes God’s children poor. God will not entrust Himself to those who hold on to their money and who will not give. The more you give, the more God will give to you.
Sowing with One’s Money
Please read 2 Corinthians 9:6, which says, “He who sows sparingly shall also sparingly reap; and he who sows with blessings shall also with blessings reap.” This is also a scriptural principle of financial management. When Christians give, they are not throwing their money away; they are sowing. The Word does not say, “He who throws away his money sparingly shall also sparingly reap; and he who throws away his money with blessings shall also with blessings reap.” It says, “He who sows sparingly shall also sparingly reap; and he who sows with blessings shall also with blessings reap.” When you give, you are sowing. Do you want your money to grow? If you do, you need to sow. When you give your money away, it grows. When you do not give it away, it does not grow.
Please remember that money can be our seeds. If you see a brother or sister in difficulty, and you remember him or her, God will cause that money to grow and harvest thirtyfold, sixtyfold, and even a hundredfold. I hope that more of your money will be sown.
Brothers and sisters, can anyone be so foolish as to expect a harvest without sowing? How many times has God not answered your prayer for your needs? You are a “hard man,” trying to reap where you have not sown and gather where you have not winnowed. This is impossible. Why do you not sow some of your money? There are many brothers and sisters who are in difficulty. Why do you not sow money upon them so that you may reap when the reaping time comes? The more a person holds on to his money, the less he will have. In the above portion of the Word, we see a very beautiful picture. The Corinthians gave to those in Jerusalem, remembering their needs, and Paul said that it was a kind of sowing, not a kind of throwing away. Please remember that money can be our seeds. If you see a brother or sister in difficulty, and you remember him or her, God will cause that money to grow and harvest thirtyfold, sixtyfold, and even a hundredfold. I hope that more of your money will be sown.
A new believer should learn to sow, so that when he has needs, he can reap what he has sown….If you eat what you have, of course, there will not be anything left. But if you keep half of your seed for sowing, you will have a harvest next year. If next year you also keep half for planting, you will have another harvest the following year. If you want to sow anything, you must not eat all that you have.
A new believer should learn to sow, so that when he has needs, he can reap what he has sown. You cannot reap what you have not sown. There are many brothers who are getting poorer and poorer. If you eat what you have, of course, there will not be anything left. But if you keep half of your seed for sowing, you will have a harvest next year. If next year you also keep half for planting, you will have another harvest the following year. If you want to sow anything, you must not eat all that you have. Some people always eat and never sow. They also never receive anything when they are in need. Suppose some young brothers sow some money upon other brothers, praying as they sow, “O God, I have sown upon the brothers. When I have needs, I want to harvest.” If they do this, God will honor His own words.
(The Collected Works of Watchman Nee, Vol. 49, pp. 429-431, published by Living Stream Ministry, 1853 W. Ball road, Anaheim, CA 92804 U.S.A.; P.O. Box 2121, Anaheim, CA 92814 U.S.A.)