Money’s Grip On The Heart

“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.  “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?  Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?  Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? – Matthew 6:25-34

“The distinctive thing that money allows us is abundance without dependence.” – Andy Crouch

“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.“ – Matthew 6:24

[We believe] Money can do what prayer does, and it is quicker and less time-consuming. Our trust in ourselves and in our talents makes us structurally independent of God. – Paul Miller

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. – James 1:27

“If anyone among them comes into want while they themselves have nothing to spare, they fast for two or three days for him. In this way they can supply any poor man with the food he needs…And see, because of them, good flows on in the world!”(Letter to Diognetus) – Aristides

The religious motivation of charity, the strong association of love for God with aid for the needy, is so omnipresent in all the Jewish and Christian evidence that it would be unwise to belittle or ignore it. – Peiter Willem van der horst

Does my bank account remind me of the Kingdom of God?

• Well stewarded
• Generous
• Thoughtful
• Future-focused
• Faithful
• Kind

Or does it look like…

• Impulsive
• Desperate
• Regretful
• Self-focused
• Scattered
• Anxious

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This week, take the first opportunity to be generous and take it.