How to Be Rich

WHEN: Friday, February 8, 2008, 7:30 PM

WHERE: Lighthouse Carey Building, ACC

"Did you know that the topic of money is talked about more in the New Testament than Salvation? We spend our whole life trying to get rich. It is now time that we learn how to be

rich."

Houston's Simon Lee will be talking to us this Friday night about the topic of money and what it means to be rich. Please bring your Bible, pens, and notepads to Cornerstone on Friday. Since Faye will be staying in Houston, Simon needs to leave that night to go back to Houston. However, there will be another activity after Cstone.

EDIT: (Notes from Friday)

RICH PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE WITH OPTIONS.
(Some people really do not have any options. Take a missions trip to Africa or China and you'll really see the poverty firsthand. Participate and give your time and heart to an organization that you are really passionate about. Invest your heart and they'll invest their heart in you - long term committment to helping out an organization).

1 Timothy 6:17 - Paul talks about two things that we need to do:
1.) Repent of arrogance -
When we look at the poor - we judge them for what they don't have
When we look at the rich - we judge them for what they do have and what they do with it
We think that we know better... this is arrogance. Must repent and ask for forgiveness.
2.) Your hope in wealth
(best way to tell if you put your hope in wealth is to ask your parents or best friends honestly and humbly)
How to tell if you put money as your first priority in life?
a.) Does your lifestyel or debt impede your ability to live?
b.) Does fear of not having enough impede your giving? How much money is enough for you to be satisfied and comfortable?
c.) Which of these statements create most anxiety for you? There is NO God OR there is NO money in the bank?
d.) Do you have money in the bank but no peace in your hearts? Even if you dont' get a paychet, do you get your peace from God?

1 Timothy 6:18 - this is what Paul wants Timothy to tell rich people - "Command them to DO GOOD, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share... so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life."

Foundations are a great way to give your money and keep it for charity and help you be generous. (ask us for more information on this).

Your first fruits should be for God. Your choice foods should be there and not for yourself. HOW? Mark your calendars when the paycheck deposits and predetermine your giving and give to God first.

The amount to give, the amount to tithe should be an amount that God lays on your heart. It should reflect your own personal journey between you and God. Let's be a generation that gives lavishly.

Challenge: Giving hurts, when you give, it should hurt. if you're too comfortable about the amount you give, UP IT! It calls for faith and obedience in God.