well moving on to the second set of questions:
1) Do you know people whose lives are or seem to be captured or distortedbecause they focused primarily on money? if so, what do you think caused that pattern to develp in their personality.
2) Do you agree or diagree with sociaologist Rober Bellah's observation that the two major goals of contemporary Americans are success and the desire to feel good? Why or why not?
3) Have you known instances in which churches seemed to focus on fundraising rather than on teaching stewardship as an aspect of our spiritual relationship with God? Illustrate, and say why you do or do not see that as a destructive pattern.
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2 comments:
1)Yes, I think primarily, it starts, because that is the way of life in America. To succeed and make lots of money.It continues to get worse when people do not realize that the money they have is not theirs,but God's and then some get wrapped up in keeping up with the Jones's attitude.People can get hooked on having more than they need and always looking for that thing that will make them happy.But, once they get the next thing the thrill wears off and then they move on to the next thing.I'll use the example of TV sets. Not bad in themselves, but we have gone from 19" screens to 72" big screens with surround sound and even projector screens. As a society we always want bigger, better and instant. I think the focus comes from or starts from wanting to be happy.
2)I agree. We are taught by society to want, to succeed and we want to feel good.I believe this has been handed down for a few generations in families.
3)Yes, I have seen this happen in the churches I have attended.When funds seemed to be very low, right away they started a fundraiser, rather than teach stewardship. I did not understand stewardship for a very long time. The churches I had attended never really taught stewardship as an aspect of our relationship God, nor the fact that everything we have really belongs to God.That we are just managers of what is His.So, if churches do not teach stewardship rather than fundraising, it will be destrutive because, with real stewardship in a church there probably would be no need for fund- raising.We would all be better managers of what God has given us to manage.
thanks debra, i agree and if you begin to talk about real free will offerings, not just at events but in life people get rather defensive.
In one of the face studies the question of personal convictions along with this question of success etc. we ended up talking about Bill Gates and other weathly people.
Odd how the discussion leaves the personal and immedeately goes to someone we admire/envy/condemn.
Hope we get more to participate with us.
Keep with it and it will be more. WaynO
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