Stewardship: Living Responsibly with God's Gifts
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"All that we are is a gift from God. The earth is the Lord's and all that is in it. All that we have is a gift from God, the world, and the world. And those who live in it. There are no words to describe the wonders of God's creation. For God has founded it on the seas." [00:10:18] (22 seconds)
"John Wesley in his 22 questions that he would meditate on daily one of his questions was do I pray about all of the money I spend do I pray about all the money I spend and as a useful tool that one's a pretty hard question to answer or to to reconcile within ourselves do we pray about all the money we spend" [00:25:19] (29 seconds)
"Jesus is telling his disciples what is or asking his disciples what is your focus what is our focus what is the purpose of our being here at all and he ends that section of teaching with do the birds of the field not have enough to eat are the grasses of the field not clothed in wondrous raiment how much more will God care about you so do not worry about what you will eat or what you will eat or what you will wear worry instead about the kingdom of God" [00:26:17] (44 seconds)
"John Wesley there are a lot of places where he comes up with three rules for something do all the good you can't do no harm do good and tend to the ordinances of God that's a John Wesley set of three rules for life but Wesley came up with three rules for money the first is earn all you can which is I think a surprising rule when we think about kind of our life as Christians" [00:30:02] (28 seconds)
"Earn all you can without hurting your neighbor in body mind or soul if you're earning causes your neighbor to somehow fall short it is outside of what Wesley and who God calls us to be. For Wesley, this included things like selling spiritist liquor and running gambling establishments or brothels. I don't think any of us are quite there. Hopefully." [00:31:36] (36 seconds)
"And while savings accounts and bank accounts existed for Wesley, what he was focusing on when he said save all you can was don't spend money you don't need to spend. Live modest lives. Not live joyless lives. Not live lives that are completely devoid of comfort. But live modest lives. Get... Purchase those things that are needful for health, and for strength." [00:34:17] (38 seconds)
"So often we try to keep up with what we think we need that we never quite take that step back and say, what is needful for me? What is needful for my family? What does my family, what do I, what does the church, what does my community actually need to be whole, to be complete, to feel the love of God?" [00:37:04] (27 seconds)
"Money is a tool. If we spend all of our time amassing it, and looking at it, and thinking it's the best thing in the world, if we spend all of our time pulling it together, comparing how much we have to someone else, if we spend all of our time thinking about how much money other people have, and saying, well, they must be better than me because they have more money, it stops being a tool and starts being, an idol." [00:42:19] (31 seconds)
"That's how do we, we live in and for the kingdom of god here and now how do we use the tools at our disposal to build the lives that god has called us to to live the lives that god has called us to to build the community that god has called us to live in and those three rules are still good rules wesley may have had different conceptions of what the economy around him looked like than our reality but to earn all you can save all you can and give all you can are still good guidelines for us to sit down and consider how am i using the tools at my disposal to live the live life that god has called me to live" [00:43:00] (59 seconds)
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"John Wesley in his 22 questions that he would meditate on daily one of his questions was do I pray about all of the money I spend do I pray about all the money I spend and as a useful tool that one's a pretty hard question to answer or to to reconcile within ourselves do we pray about all the money we spend" [00:25:19] (29 seconds)
"Jesus is telling his disciples what is or asking his disciples what is your focus what is our focus what is the purpose of our being here at all and he ends that section of teaching with do the birds of the field not have enough to eat are the grasses of the field not clothed in wondrous raiment how much more will God care about you so do not worry about what you will eat or what you will eat or what you will wear worry instead about the kingdom of God" [00:26:17] (44 seconds)
"John Wesley there are a lot of places where he comes up with three rules for something do all the good you can't do no harm do good and tend to the ordinances of God that's a John Wesley set of three rules for life but Wesley came up with three rules for money the first is earn all you can which is I think a surprising rule when we think about kind of our life as Christians" [00:30:02] (28 seconds)
"Earn all you can without hurting your neighbor in body mind or soul if you're earning causes your neighbor to somehow fall short it is outside of what Wesley and who God calls us to be. For Wesley, this included things like selling spiritist liquor and running gambling establishments or brothels. I don't think any of us are quite there. Hopefully." [00:31:36] (36 seconds)
"And while savings accounts and bank accounts existed for Wesley, what he was focusing on when he said save all you can was don't spend money you don't need to spend. Live modest lives. Not live joyless lives. Not live lives that are completely devoid of comfort. But live modest lives. Get... Purchase those things that are needful for health, and for strength." [00:34:17] (38 seconds)
"So often we try to keep up with what we think we need that we never quite take that step back and say, what is needful for me? What is needful for my family? What does my family, what do I, what does the church, what does my community actually need to be whole, to be complete, to feel the love of God?" [00:37:04] (27 seconds)
"Money is a tool. If we spend all of our time amassing it, and looking at it, and thinking it's the best thing in the world, if we spend all of our time pulling it together, comparing how much we have to someone else, if we spend all of our time thinking about how much money other people have, and saying, well, they must be better than me because they have more money, it stops being a tool and starts being, an idol." [00:42:19] (31 seconds)
"That's how do we, we live in and for the kingdom of god here and now how do we use the tools at our disposal to build the lives that god has called us to to live the lives that god has called us to to build the community that god has called us to live in and those three rules are still good rules wesley may have had different conceptions of what the economy around him looked like than our reality but to earn all you can save all you can and give all you can are still good guidelines for us to sit down and consider how am i using the tools at my disposal to live the live life that god has called me to live" [00:43:00] (59 seconds)
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