OUR RESPONSIBILITY AS STEWARDS – that we will cheerfully contribute of our personal and material resources according to that which God has given so to maintain a faithful and biblical ministry among us, to support the poor and to spread the gospel to the ends of the earth – Proverbs 11:24-26; 2 Corinthians 8-9; 1 Corinthians 16:2; Galatians 6:10. BIBLICAL BENEVOLENCE or Giving under Grace – 2 Corinthians 8:1-4 We begin the Christian life as recipients of the grace of God, and we continue the Christian life by being conduits (pipes or channels) of the grace of God.