Generosity 03: Everything Belongs to God

Rule of Life

Practicing the Way

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 700 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

From the first pages of Scripture, this simple truth is clear: We are guests in God’s world. Our role is that of a steward, not an owner, and in that role, we are entrusted with God’s resources for our own good and for the good of others.

Through careful examination of key passages such as Luke 12 and 2 Corinthians 8 and 9, John Mark Comer and Christian Dawson discuss areas of theological controversy around money, how to avoid the pitfalls of wealth, and practical ways of cultivating a stewardship mentality, even with little resources.

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, Generosity. Welcome back to the Rule of Life podcast. We're in season five still talking about generosity because there's so much to say.
0:41.8	Yes.
0:42.1	This is episode three.
0:43.3	My name is Christian.
0:44.0	We're just barely scratching the surface of what Jesus has to say.
0:46.7	We're not even really dealing with Paul yet.
0:48.6	No, the amount of things we're cutting from the thing that we're supposed to be showing the things we were going to cut is still wild.
0:54.3	But my name is Christian, this is John Mark, and we're going to get straight into it.
0:58.3	So a little bit about me, most of you probably don't know me.
1:00.9	I say I grew up in two different church experiences.
1:05.2	The church my family normally went to was this larger megachurch kind of situation that I came to know Jesus in
1:13.6	and had an encounter with the Holy Spirit in and really felt loved in. And also had a number of
1:17.8	different like experiences, especially around the practices of generosity. I was also say that I kind
1:22.8	of grew up in my grandmother's church. It was a African Methodist Episcopal Church, Like, typical, if you think of kind of a bit different than my childhood.
1:30.3	A little bit different, yeah. We always clap on the two and the four.
1:33.3	It's probably someone with a tambourine. You know, the minister is still there to this day.
1:37.3	I saw him a couple months ago at a memorial service. And anyway, those were both parts of my kind of faith heritage.
1:45.4	I've been in church a long time.
1:46.1	I mean, my name's Christian.
1:47.8	So clearly there was a plan.
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