- Thu, Apr 22, 2010
- Money and Giving
Pastors and Giving (audio)
A message on pastors and giving at the Exponential 06 Pastors Conference
A message on pastors and giving at the Exponential 06 Pastors Conference
God has created each of us with certain desires that correspond to certain motivations. Each of us has built-in desires for pleasure, possessions, and power. At first this may sound unbiblical, because we have come to think of these things as temptations.
For many people, spending money is an addictive behavior similar to alcoholism or gambling. With compulsive spending, the true enemy is within.
Fifteen percent of everything Jesus said is related to money and possessions.
Note: To understand these profiles, you should first be familiar with the biblical concepts presented in The Practice of Tithing as the Minimum Standard of Christian Giving
The Situation: Bill and Donna are in their mid-thirties. Bill has steady work as a salesman, but there always seems to be too much month left at the end of their money.
Bill and Donna sincerely intend to put in the offering box whatever’s left at the end of the month. But, between house payments and bills and occasionally socking a little something into savings, there’s just never anything left. They ...
Prosperity theology teaches that God will bless with material abundance and good health those who obey him and lay claim to his promises. “We don’t have to wait for God’s blessing in the life to come,” it promises. “He’ll send it to us here and now.”