Cultivating Contentment (3 of 3)
Series: Simple
Ross Lester
Luke 18
Proposition:
As Christians living for an eternal purpose, we should seek to be content with God's provision for our lives and should be faithful stewards of the resources that God entrusts to us.
Intro:
- Howdie. Good to see you all out here.
- SGM announcement:
- 8 Feb. Mandatory for members.
- Please go to info counter if you didn't get the mail.
- Week 3 of our series ''Simple''. Here is briefly what we have said so far:
- Many of us live distracted, flustered and anxious lives with no or little margin in any area.
- We looked at the life of Jesus as learned that Purpose > Priorities > Plans.
- Last week we applied this to time. We asked, what if God had control over your schedule? What if eternity is real and we will live much longer out of these bodies than we do in them?
- This week we want to look at how we take that focus and clarity of purpose and urgency that comes from life's brevity and apply it to our money.
- Now there are three major reasons that speaking about money in church today is awkward and uncomfortable.
- Preachers and churches have compromised reputations on the subject
- This is fair and true. In many pulpits this is spoken of too often and lots of the time it is for the personal gain of those doing the speaking.
- The temptation then is just to keep silent on the topic, but the scriptures don't adopt that posture.
- There are nearly 1500 references to money in the bible.
- Jesus speaks about it more than just about any other topic, except for the Kingdom of God.
- 15% of his recorded teachings were about money. That is more than he speaks about faith, or prayer, or heaven and hell.
- So Jesus spoke about money a lot as it was massively important. It is still massively important and so we should speak about it today.
- Please be assured of the heart and posture of the leadership of this church. You won ...
Series: Simple
Ross Lester
Luke 18
Proposition:
As Christians living for an eternal purpose, we should seek to be content with God's provision for our lives and should be faithful stewards of the resources that God entrusts to us.
Intro:
- Howdie. Good to see you all out here.
- SGM announcement:
- 8 Feb. Mandatory for members.
- Please go to info counter if you didn't get the mail.
- Week 3 of our series ''Simple''. Here is briefly what we have said so far:
- Many of us live distracted, flustered and anxious lives with no or little margin in any area.
- We looked at the life of Jesus as learned that Purpose > Priorities > Plans.
- Last week we applied this to time. We asked, what if God had control over your schedule? What if eternity is real and we will live much longer out of these bodies than we do in them?
- This week we want to look at how we take that focus and clarity of purpose and urgency that comes from life's brevity and apply it to our money.
- Now there are three major reasons that speaking about money in church today is awkward and uncomfortable.
- Preachers and churches have compromised reputations on the subject
- This is fair and true. In many pulpits this is spoken of too often and lots of the time it is for the personal gain of those doing the speaking.
- The temptation then is just to keep silent on the topic, but the scriptures don't adopt that posture.
- There are nearly 1500 references to money in the bible.
- Jesus speaks about it more than just about any other topic, except for the Kingdom of God.
- 15% of his recorded teachings were about money. That is more than he speaks about faith, or prayer, or heaven and hell.
- So Jesus spoke about money a lot as it was massively important. It is still massively important and so we should speak about it today.
- Please be assured of the heart and posture of the leadership of this church. You won ...
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