2 Corinthians 9

9:7From Sermon 227 · Everyone Wants a Village, Nobody Wants the BillJun 7, 2026NRSVue ↗

Which is why God loves a cheerful giver. The word is hilaros—that's where, of course, we get the word hilarious. And it means cheerful, glad, ungrudging, giving with delight. Generosity is supposed to produce joy. But a village of one is not hilarious. It's exhausting. The joy only shows up when everybody is in.

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