Phil,
One more thing, you said,
My giving, these last 25 years, has been based on what I felt the
Lord telling me to give and then generally that was done weekly regardless
what else was due that week.

As of this May, Greg and I will have been married 25 years and that's 
when we decided on our giving policy.  It sounds like the spirit was 
moving in an interesting direction in 1982 for us to have been 
thinking along the same lines around the same time.  Grin!
Kathy



At 02:30 PM 2/6/2007, you wrote:
>Sounds good, Kathy.  Funny how God teaches in different ways, that is, tells
>one to give to learn His ways and tells another to stop giving to learn His
>ways.  My giving, these last 25 years, has been based on what I felt the
>Lord telling me to give and then generally that was done weekly regardless
>what else was due that week.  If I missed a week for some reason, I made it
>up the following week.  Pastoring two different churches, one of about 50 or
>60 the first time and now one of about a dozen, I know the needs of a local
>church.  Those burdens are not easy to carry nor to understand.
>
>Phil.