“Town Hall for Hope”

There is an awesome event coming up this week that will be taking place at over 6,000 locations this Thursday (April 23rd) called “Town Hall for Hope”. Dave Ramsey, the nationally syndicated radio and television host of The Dave Ramsey Show, will be discussing the TRUE state of our economy, how we got here, what it will REALLY take to get out, and then he’ll spend an hour answering your questions live!

There are already over 1,000,000 people registered to attend at one of over 6,000 host sites internationally. Visit the “Town Hall for Hope” site link below to find the host site location nearest to you, or if you’re in the north Seattle area come join me at The Rock Church in Monroe, WA with seating available for 500 people, with the event beginning at 7:00pm sharp!

The Love of Money…

Without a doubt you’ve heard debate over the scripture, “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil…”, found in 1 Timothy 6:10. This verse may be one verse that gets twisted around and misunderstood of all verses found in the Bible. In light of this, I would like to put forward a simple illustration that gives clarity to the debate of “money” being good or evil. It’s a simple illustration that I’ve heard presented a few different ways, but the point it makes about the nature of people and their relationship with money is so easily understood that it’s worth sharing again.

Money is amoral, meaning it doesn’t have morals at all, it’s just money. You could liken money to a piece of wood. By it’s self it accomplishes nothing, but put enough of it in the hand of a carpenter it could frame a house. A pile of wood could heat a home, build a tree house for children to play in, or it could cut molded into a piece of artwork. A piece of wood could be sharpened into a spear that could inflict a wound in another person during battle, or the same piece of wood could be used by a hunter to provide food for his family. The wood doesn’t care what it is used for because it has no moral base towards good or evil, it’s just a piece of wood.

When placed in a persons hand, wood can do great or terrible things. Just because one person has a big pile of wood it doesn’t make them evil or ungodly, neither does that make a person with a small pile of wood good and holy. It’s just a piece of wood. A person can be a jerk with a bunch of wood or a little bundle just the same. A person can be a tremendous blessing to others with a bunch of wood or a little bundle, it makes no difference.

Money is identical. If a dollar bill sits on a table for a hundred years it’s still just a dollar. The quantity of dollar bills in a persons checking account or paycheck at the end of the week makes no difference to the persons character. What makes all the difference is how we use the money we do have, and that often determines how much more or less money we will have in the future. Just keep that in perspective the next time you hear someone debating the issue of money being good or evil.