The real story of the tithe is that God’s people consolidated their personal giving and only about ten percent was raked off the top for the religious leaders. The rest was distributed to the poor. The tithe and its effects on the world were awesome. It displayed God’s heart for the people and kept a reasonable balance for those who made some

The gospel is about letting God bring redemption and the way of his crazy kingdom into our frantically dysfunctional patterns of living.

Your secular work is the soil in which God plants his sacred kingdom work. Therefore your work is not a hindrance to what God is doing, but instead a significant part of what he is doing.

The church must be viewed as the people of God, not the institution.

As Jesus plainly said, “You cannot serve both God and money,” and thus every aspect of our faith, fears, plans, and dreams will be challenged at this basic level.

If you want to serve God with your life, you cannot serve your own interests, pad your wallets, put away enough to render faith irrelevant, or build your own kingdom. God’s kingdom has, and always will, operate on the principle of manna, not mammon. God will always provide for his people as they do his work his way.

No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Making disciples is easier and cheaper than keeping consumer Christians happy.

The goal of our calling isn’t to be bi-vocational, fully paid, or volunteer. The goal of our existence is to learn how to leverage everything God has given us.