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Live Blogging: Financial Freedom / Budgeting Seminar with David Briggs
Notes….
The average households under 35 are saving -16% of their income.
Financial freedom has nothing to do with our income.
The law of guaranteed wealth: Spend less than you make for a long period of time.
Man, these powerpoint slides are from around 1980 or something. Someone needs to read Presentation Zen! :)
Comparison to others destroys your contentment.
You will always be able to find somebody else that has something better than you.
In the comparison game we will never be content.
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What are Some Practical Examples of What it Means to be Missional?
In the comments of the last post, Jim asked this question:
“I’m just beginning to try to help my established congregation turn itself into a missional focus.I really like the notes and presentation, but where I struggle is where your presentation leaves off…what does this look like practically…what are the practices your community is a part of…in what ways is your community different in appearance, look and action than what I see going on in my established non-missional congregation?
just looking …
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The Great Sin of the Western Church?
Last week I wrote about the way that my Zambia has effected me and one of the things that came from it is that we’re hosting a new small group in our house on Sunday nights. We were talking in this new group about how easy it is to departmentalize our lives and so easily miss how the gospel actually calls us to live differently from how we are. Thoughts went to things such as the crusades, …
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Growing Generosity vs. Meeting the Budget
A friend and I were talking through some of the characteristics of The Well today and he made an observation that was very, very encouraging. He said to me, “I love The Well because our focus is on generosity vs. meeting the budget.”
I think this is a big difference that is also very subtle. I think this is seen in my previous post on the stimulus checks and the church that asked for them. …
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Give Us Your Economic Stimulus Check?
Genuine question here: Would the following quote I found on a church website inspire you to give? Would you find this helpful? Offensive? Annoying? Just fine?
Here’s an idea! Whether you normally tithe or regularly put a check in the offering plate or just put in whatever cash you can from your wallet when you are at church, why don’t you trying tithing on this unexpected gift from the government? If you give the first 10% …
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Economic Stimulus or Missional Stimulus?
I read recently on Al Hsu’s blog this post about how our economy depends on us buying things that we don’t need. That’s sad. Really sad.
As Al said in his post, “So what happens if people only buy what they actually need? The economy collapses, because it’s based on us all buying unnecessary stuff? So sad.”
Now is about the time where many of us will be receiving our “Economic Stimulus Checks.” To me, this is such a strange thing.
Now, …
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Developing Missional Values, Programs, Budgets, Goals
I am continually trying to work out how to better think through and organize our community in a natural and semi-organic way so that we can best live out or mission and our values.
I spend a lot of time thinking about this “organizing for mission” concept and as part of my thinking I brainstormed a generalized flow of thought for how we develop programs, ideas and even budgets. In fact, what you will see below came mostly from a conversation …
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Giving is Only as Strong as Your Mission…
From an article on The Ooze:
Our house church has been thriving now for over 2 years and I can honestly say I’ve not once had to preach a sermon on tithing or giving, and yet our small gathering gave thousands of dollars to the help the poor in our community last year. In fact, we’re on track to double last year’s amount, and I’ve never had to beg or plead for our members to dig deep or give … -
Personal Financial Accountability In the Church, A Way Forward
For the first three years of our marriage my wife and I didn’t have any outstanding credit card debt. Then the crap hit the fan. Between some unnecessary purchases, not making enough money, hospital bills, and a string of car repairs, we amassed ourselves some significant credit card debt.
Over the last two years we’ve been trying to be more conscious of how we spend and how we save. We’re finally starting to show some signs of …
Apparently I am now friends with myself on facebook. I live in Canada too eh.