“The healthy disciple realizes that every resource comes from the hand of God and is to be used generously for kingdom priorities and purposes.
Unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. John 12:24
All that we have is God’s, for it’s from his hand that we receive all our many gifts. In releasing our resources for the purpose of stewarding generously a life of abundance, we let the kernels of our resources fall to the ground and be left there to die. Then, as we release them, they take root and multiply themselves through the seedlings of new life, brought forth by our obedience to let them go. Then the harvest comes that only God through his grace can reap! This is how our life of abundance is multiplied in the hearts of others, founded on the example of Christ.”
Stephen A. Macchia in Becoming a Healthy Disciple: 10 Traits of a Vital Christian (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004) 217, 219.