Thirsting Souls Bible Teaching

(2Co 9:5)  Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.   As in all things that we do, there needs to be the matter of “right thinking”. Two attitudes are given regarding this offering: there is a need (bounty: as in a blessing offered), or there is not (covetousness: fraudulent offering). The Holy Spirit is stressing that this offering is because there was a true need.