How can Christians be a giver?

[MedicBravo]

My experience in this was at my last church's food bank.
We gave out food every Wednesday afternoon before service/Bible study for 6 years regardless of weather.
At first, the woman runningi it and her husband weren't getting much food and I was going to quit.
I'd just started going back to church.
Side note: God woke me one Sunday morning and with my entire being I hear "Get up. Go to church. You're not a quitter."
I had made my mind up the previous night I wasn't going back. I got up and went to church and for that 6 years went almost every Sunday and Wed with the occassional Saturday.
In one month since then, the church regularly got, every week and a trailer 12-14ft.
I began to think, what could I get out of it and it's all free!
It's all God's anyway and the people showing up for it need it far more than we do. I took nothing until everyone and even church members got theirs.

The reward of giving and the right heart in giving.​

(6) Our giving should be bountiful, if we would be rewarded bountifully.​

"But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully."

(7) Giving should come from a right heart.​

So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.
For God loves a cheerful giver: Instead of giving in a grudging way or out of necessity, God wants us to give cheerfully. The ancient Greek word for cheerful (hilaros, used only here in the New Testament) is the root for our English word hilarious. God wants us to give happily because that is how God Himself gives.

*A U-Haul never follows a hearse."

 

[Gothedral]

Tithing is supposed to be this way.

 

[MedicBravo]

Tithing is supposed to be this way.

True.
Many churches also run food banks. When a church is blessed with this, feeding people is providing one of the fundamental things of life.
My last church did it right, IMO.
No names or info taken just stand in line and take what you get. We had to ban some b/c they were sending their children through and trying to make multiple trips. This meant they took more and others got less or not at all.
They fit a certain "stereotype" if you know what I mean and didn't speak much English.
At one point, I was taking a lot home myself of which I was giving to my mom to her job at a large airport.
Jesus fed the hungry and tithing is a bare minimum. which I find a bad excuse.