"Don't waste your money.
You have your money as a steward, not as an owner. You don't own anything, not even your bodies. You are a manager. Get the notion that you own things out of your head.
This means that your money is wasted if it does not acheive the purposes of its owner—God. You have been entrusted with money so that the way you use it will show that Jesus is more valuable than money. How will you do that? That's the challenge of life in America.
Jesus talks about money more than he talks about heaven, hell, or any other sin.
(Luke 6:20, 8:14, 9:58, 12:15, 31, 33, 14:33; Matt 6:19-20, 6:25; 2 Cor 6:9-10; Eph 4:28; 1 Tim 6:7-10, 18)
Christianity is not a come-and-see religion, where we build big monuments . It's a go-and-tell religion. Therefore it requires wartime simplicity.
Put a cap on your lifestyle or it will take you over. How would you do that if you had access to royalties from thirty books? I face that problem. I've signed away all of them to a foundation because I'm afraid of it! I want to go to heaven far more than I want to be rich." - John Piper
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Radical approach from a man who lives what he says
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amen. and i say that far more as a "lord make this so in me and your body." not as a "ditto" because though i'd like to deny it, i sure think i "own" alot when it comes down to it.
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