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Should Christians Save for Retirement?

Ask Pastor John

Desiring God

John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The Bible doesn’t have a category for retiring from ministry. We may retire from a paid vocation, but never from loving and serving others.

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0:00.0

Well, all of our money is God's money, and that profound reality raises all sorts of questions

0:11.1

about stewardship, like this question from a podcast listener named Colin, who finds

0:15.4

himself in a tricky spot as he considers a career in financial counseling.

0:20.3

Pastor John, what would you say to a young man or a young woman who is interested in pursuing

0:24.0

a career as a financial advisor?

0:26.5

Could a Christian serve others by helping them plan financially for retirement, or do

0:31.1

you think this is promoting an ungodly waste of retirement?

0:35.0

I want to help others steward their money for Christ's sake, but our society's warp perspective

0:39.5

on retirement makes me think twice about entering this profession.

0:43.4

Can a Christian serve others and help them plan for retirement even a very typical American

0:47.9

retirement with a clear conscience is financial planning a worthy Christian vocation?

0:54.3

If I didn't believe that financial planning was a worthy Christian vocation, I would not

1:00.7

have spoken to the annual gathering of the Kingdom Advisors, that's their name, Kingdom

1:06.1

Advisors, that's the conference anyway, the Kingdom Advisors a few weeks ago.

1:11.4

In fact, if Colin isn't familiar with the Ron Blue Institute, it sponsors that event,

1:20.6

encouraging Christian financial planning for the last 30 years or so, I'd encourage him

1:25.6

and others to check it out, the Ron Blue Institute.

1:29.4

He's been giving his life to this for decades.

1:31.5

In fact, I sat beside him at a dinner just before I spoke and I asked him, can you put

1:37.7

in one sentence what you've been about for 30 years, he didn't even hesitate.

1:42.7

He said, God owns it all, that's it.

1:48.0

In other words, it's not yours.

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