Comments on: Not owning nice stuff.

By: wambui

wambui — Tue, 31 May 2011 18:20:12 +0000

dear Sam,
be blessed thus,

By: justin

justin — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 07:25:04 +0000

we serve a god that meet are needs above and beyond he dosent want his children to be poor that is a poverty mentality we are royal sons and daughter of him who feast in his goodness and he wants us to have ever thing we want if you are going to say that you are going to stay poor so that you will stay needy enough to want to pray to god maybe you should reevaluate your relationship with him and relize it not a works relation ship it a love relation ship anything we need in this world was all ready payed for on the cross any thing are god is good and want to see his children feasting on his goodness

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:08:53 +0000

He already talked about it above, but if your unfamiliar with these posts, that last been about pioneering pastors was classic Jon Acuff sarcasm. So you were totally responding to his with your own.

By: Kerpants

Kerpants — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 04:55:45 +0000

I wish this would be true to the owners of the 3 Bentleys at my church.

By: MacLiRi

MacLiRi — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:55:42 +0000

Ferrari Enzo. beautiful. bud i'd rather a picture of a Koenigsegg CCXR or, if you have to stick with a maranello product, how bout the FXX?

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:03:58 +0000

I want to mention that if christians have worked hard for their money there is absolutely no reason they cant have that expensive tv/sound system or whatever its called. Or there is no reason why a lady cant buy designer clothing and shoes. Its their money

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:59:53 +0000

The Rolls Royce is just a tad excessive i think for a pastor.

By: Amber Leigh

Amber Leigh — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:16:28 +0000

I once heard a close friend of Frank Sinatra's speak. He said that one day they were getting into a car in the rain when a woman ran up to Frank and asked him for an autograph. While he was signing it, she commented that his cufflinks were nice, asking where he bought them because she would like to get a pair for her husband. Immediately, Frank took off the cufflinks and gave them to the woman for her husband. His friend, the speaker, was shocked. He said, "Frank, why did you give those to her? You don't even know her! Those were expensive cufflinks!" Frank replied, "If you have, in your possession, something that you can't give away, then you don't own it. It owns you." I've always thought of it that way.

By: Sharona

Sharona — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:34:51 +0000

To build on the comment above, Jesus' response to the rich young ruler was specific to him: what was more important to him; his riches or Jesus? In the end, he chose his riches because he placed more value in them. Money is not the root of all evil, rather it is the love of money.

By: @birdseyeblue

@birdseyeblue — Sun, 30 May 2010 23:09:08 +0000

I've thought about this topic quite a bit after reading The Irresistable Revolution by Shane Claiborne. It's a good book, check it out. But what my faith has come down to is this: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind and all your strength. If you are truly doing this, then you're love for the children in the sweatshops that make those nice things, those stereotyped starving African children, will overcome your desire for something that makes you look good. I fail at this more often then I care to admit, but God has laid it on my heart that I try my best to give everything up to him and LOVE other people with all I have, money included. God doesn't love me any less if I look terrible and never purchase another thing. Plus by reducing, reusing and recycling everything possible it's a good way to protect creation.

"Why spend your money on what is not bread and your labor on what does not satisfy?"