Generosity 02: Watch Out for Greed!

Rule of Life

Practicing the Way

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 700 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Accumulation and acquisition are often celebrated as the path to security and happiness, but Jesus warns against the broken human desire to always want more.

In Episode 02 of the Generosity Season, John Mark and Christian Dawson explore how Jesus’ way of generosity can set us free from enslavement to greed and slowly train our hearts to be deeply happy and content.

Learn how the pursuit of possessions leads to hurry and anxiety, ways to become more sensitive to our invisible propensity towards greed, and why Jesus calls wealth so deceitful.

This podcast accompanies the Generosity Practice, a four-session experience designed to help integrate generosity into your community. Learn more at practicingtheway.org/generosity. Thanks to The Circle and other givers, all our resources are free. To learn more about The Circle, visit practicingtheway.org/give. To run a Practice with your church or small group, visit practicingtheway.org/resources.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Rule of Life podcast by practicing the way.
0:05.2	In each season, we explore an ancient practice from the way of Jesus and its relevance for the modern era.
0:11.5	This is Season 5, season five.
0:39.2	We're talking about generosity.
0:40.6	My name's Christian.
0:41.3	I'm here with John Mark.
0:42.3	Hello.
0:42.7	And let's just jump straight into it.
0:45.0	Okay.
0:45.9	The theme of session two, it's watch out for greed.
0:49.4	So let's go into it.
0:50.8	I remember you sharing this story and the practice.
0:55.1	And if you haven't watched the practice yet, go and do that. It is worth all of your time. Be sure this really like
0:59.2	interesting story. And I'd love for you to recap that to start. Yeah, it's actually a recent story.
1:02.8	I was not long ago, I was hiking up in Malibu with a few buddies. And we went on this hike to a
1:09.8	waterfall and it had just rained. And so we got
1:12.7	super muddy like we're crossing this stream. So we get back to the house and we sat by the host for
1:19.7	a few minutes and we washed off our shoes because our shoes were all like covered them up. And it took
1:23.8	a while. They were like four of us. So we're washing off our shoes and just somehow,
1:28.2	just dudes on a Saturday post-hiking,
1:31.4	the conversation fell to what a big deal shoes were,
1:35.9	like in middle school and elementary school.
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