Figuring out Finances

A little while back I started writing a series of posts about finances. I attempted to explain some of how I thought we should be living out our lives financially. It was met with some criticism and disagreement, which I think was fairly healthy.
I still have some pretty solid thoughts on how we should be living and how we should handle our finances, but I’ve also got quite a few questions. After a conversation with my friend Chris, these questions have been running through my head quite a bit, so I thought I’d do a short series dedicated to exploring these questions. I’m really hoping for some feedback, because these are intended to be questions that I have and ideas I’d like to explore… I haven’t settled on any answers yet.
I’ll put out some of the scripture that have influenced my thoughts, and share some of what I’ve thought about. Put it this way, I think we need to talk more about money. Jesus talks about money a lot, and when he says, “you can’t serve both God and Money,” I don’t think he was talking about people bowing before dollar bills. I know a lot of churches and Christians are weary of scaring people away by talking about money and giving, but when we do that we force ourselves to neglect a lot of things Christ said and talked about.

5 thoughts on “Figuring out Finances”

  1. When churches are hesitant to talk about money, it’s usually because they are asking for people to give to them, to fund the operations of the church or a building plan. I think there is a legitimate feeling of guilt and justification that has to be done by the leaders in order to pep themselves up for those talks. If the conversations were around what Jesus says about money, and then were followed up with how can money be used to make the world a better place, versus, how can your money be used to make our church better, pay our staff more, etc, then the conversation would be had much more frequently and the world really would be a better place.

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