"i'll never know what it is that could make someone dive off of a bridge into a frozen river to save a solid gold baby"
--Jack Handy
This post is about a call I got today from someone, telling me that their church was really interested in giving a lot of money, maybe someday, maybe somehow, to our ministry... It could be in a really big, way, which would be kind of sad because of how that would transpire, or it could be a significant kind of support on a regular, ongoing, relational basisi...
I gotta tell you, the first thing I think is, "oh man, not a lot of money, Lord" because that is DEADLY to people...
Then I thought of a little game we could play. I'd call it "get rid of a million quick!"
All you do is:
Get given an obscene amount of money
Get responsibility covered by a group of co-equal, godly, tested saints who can work together in unity through prayer and seeking God out of a pure heart
Get rid of money in pure hearted ways, until you're out...
It could take a lot longer than you'd think, since doing things of longterm impact can take a lot of prep and prayer... for example:
it might sound like a great idea to start a hospital somewhere... or an orphanage... but did you think of how the most faithful ones start? People...
Not buildings, funds, or projects... People... People with intimacy with Christ!
And no million dollars can cause the gathering of those people... only our prayers after John 4 "Father, send workers into your harvest field!"
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What about the ramdom paying off debts of those in the Church? And I don't mean those invovled directly with Grubby Kupp.
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later on, i rethought some of this and ended up feeling like, "okay, a bunch of money in the hands of people who are eager for good works would pretty much rock!"
ReplyDeleteas for randomness in the paying off of debts, i'm not for it at all.
as for obedience to the scriptural teachings of jubilee and the forgiveness of debts, as well as those direct commands to care for the poor, leaders, and helpless widows, we could be much busier in that regard without soon falling into error.