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Jesus Said Too Much About Money
“You cannot wholeheartedly be a follower of Jesus Christ and stay lost financially. It’s impossible, because He said too much about money.”
- Andy Stanley, North Point Church, Alpharetta, GA
Pastors and other peeps in ministry, how can we build a culture that understands this in our churches? How can we break the “80/20 rule?”
Imagine what we could do for the Kingdom if we were willing to give it ALL to God…
The First F-Word: Forgiveness
During the message on Sunday, I talked about three areas where it is hard to gain and easy to lose integrity, authority, and influence. The first area was forgiveness.
Andy Stanley spoke about this recently at the Catalyst Conference, which our team attended. It’s been stuck in my mind ever since.
I had several people tell me Sunday that they knew they needed to forgive somebody. The reason I spoke about forgiveness first is because it is our CORE MESSAGE. If we want to be great leaders, our lives have to line up with what we say we believe. And I don’t know about you, but Matthew 6:14-15 is reason enough for me to not harbor any unresolved junk in my life.
Way to many leaders and way to many Christians are living life carrying around past hurts. Its keeping us from impacting lives. Its keeping us from loving people. Its hurting relationships. And its hurting us.
Some of us need to get on the phone or meet someone for coffee THIS WEEK and say “I forgive you.” Then we need to get on our knees and release all the unresolved junk in our lives to God.
When we live out our belief in the fact that Jesus Christ forgave us and we are to forgive others, we can gain integrity and influence.
Catalyst 2008 Andy Stanley
From Andys talk:
-Nehemiah 5:6-18 the reason Nehemiah could stand up and lead like he did was because his deeds and his creeds were aligned.
-the best leadership decision Nehemiah ever made was when first arrived on the scene and said “I’m not going to take my fair share.”
-we don’t have positional authority in ministry. We can’t make anyone do anything because our people are volunteers.
-we have a better kind of authority…moral authority.
-we have to align our creeds and deeds. When we do that we gain influence.
-we aren’t talking about being perfect…there’s no such thing. We ARE talking about being aligned.
The three most important ways we can apply this:
In our forgiveness, our family, and our finances.
