The Theology of Offering

From Cain and Abel to Ourselves — Souls and Bodies

By: Geoffrey Schmitt

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

What does God truly desire when Scripture speaks of offerings and sacrifice?

Beginning with Cain and Abel and moving through Abraham, the Temple, the prophets, the cross of Christ, and the offered life of believers, The Theology of Offering explores one of the Bible’s most important and misunderstood themes. Far more than a study about money or religious ritual, this book reveals how offering ultimately becomes a way of life shaped by grace, gratitude, worship, suffering, stewardship, praise, and love.

Through Scripture, teaching, personal reflection, poetry, prayer, and practical application, Geoffrey Schmitt invites readers to discover that the deepest offerings are often quiet and ordinary:

a meal shared,
a burden carried,
a prayer whispered,
a tear shed,
a song sung through hardship,
a life lived faithfully before God.

Drawing from decades of pastoral ministry, Kairos prison work, sacramental worship, family life, grief, healing, and spiritual formation, Schmitt weaves theology together with lived experience in a warm and deeply personal style.

This study explores:

• Cain and Abel’s first offerings,
• Abraham and Isaac,
• Temple worship and the prophets,
• the widow’s mite,
• Mary’s alabaster jar,
• Christ as the Lamb of God,
• the cross as God’s offering to humanity,
• Eucharist and living sacrifice,
• stewardship, suffering, praise, hospitality, and love,
• and finally the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

At its heart, this book proclaims a liberating truth:
God is not seeking polished religious performance, but offered lives shaped by grace.

The theology of offering begins at the altar,
finds fulfillment in Christ,
and continues through ordinary people learning day by day to say:

“Here I am, as I am, where I am, when I am, in Your presence, Lord.”