Money Talks

Greetings from the Stye…

It’s been a while since we talked about money…wait… have we ever talked about it?

In a DVD produced by tpt entitled, “money’n’sanity”, Nathan Dugan works with a family to help them talk about money. One of the folks reflects that we spend money based upon our emotions and that the two dominant emotions that control our spending are; fear and guilt. I thought that was interesting. But it makes sense. Our culture has brainwashed us to live in fear that we are short of something, that there is a scarcity or, that we are incomplete unless we purchase a certain product. As believers in God we know that those are lies. God abundantly provides for our needs.

So how do we get away from this story of lies? I go back to the Marks of Discipleship: One of them is to give a percentage of our income to help others. Another Mark of Discipleship is to spend time with other believers so we can challenge and support each other.

I would encourage us to actually talk about how we can live as disciples (as we are drinking coffee…of course!). One of the topics we can talk about with our believing friends is: “How do our spending habits reflect our faith?” Several authors claim that they can tell the strength of our faith by looking at our checkbooks! Yikes!

Talking honestly about money and faith should make some good conversation! If you really want to stir things up just ask someone how they prioritize money and what their faith has to do with their financial bottom line. It may not make you the most popular pig in town, but you will be doing everyone a real favor.

May God continue to bless you!

Stewie!