What is good about money?
What bad can come from money?
What good can come from money?
How do you think God views money?
Why do people get into debt?
Are there responsible and irresponsible ways to spend?
Are there responsible and irresponsible ways to save?
“Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, `How do we rob you?’ “In tithes and offerings. [9] You are under a curse—the whole nation of you—because you are robbing me. [10] Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.
-Malachi 3:8-10 (NIV)
What is a tithe?
Why does God command us to tithe?
Why do you think that is a hard command for a lot of people to obey?
“People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. [10] For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.”
-1 Timothy 6:9-10 (NIV)
Is money evil?
How can you keep from being tempted by a love of money?
What can happen if money becomes more important, or we trust it more than God?
“Two things I ask of you, O Lord; do not refuse me before I die: [8] Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread. [9] Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, `Who is the Lord?’ Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.”
-Proverbs 30:7-9 (NIV)
-Ezra & Karyn
2010-04-13