Welcome to Further In, a podcast where Pastor Ben and members of our team take a deeper look at Sunday's message at Passion City Church, D.C., and consider how to apply the truths of God's word to our lives today.

Todd, Susan, thank you for being here with us. This is a special edition of Further In.

Normally we have staff people here.

We turned them all loose, and this is a couples further in.

I love it.

I love it.

If you're listening, Donna Stewart's in the mix.

Hello there.

Susan Peterson, Todd Peterson, myself.

And here's what I was hoping to do.

We can talk about all kinds of stuff.

But in my view is, you know, you obviously gave an amazing talk just now taught on generosity,

God's heart for it, how our finances can be an area of great blessing to others and to ourselves.

And so I want to talk about generosity because I think

when you bring up the topic of finances, it can be scary for people or shaming for people.

Normally when you say, we're going to do a talk on finance, people aren't like, hooray,

but I think if they can step into, no, I really am honoring God and organized with my finances.

That's actually a liberating and exciting thing. But I wanted to steal these moments that you guys

have so good at counseling people in the area of finances. I want to throw a couple questions at you.

And particularly with this first one I have in mind, the person who's in their

first career, it's a lot of people here in our city that you go, this is my first job. I'm out on my

own. And I have no scaffolding for my financial life. So even beyond just like a, what should I give,

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