If you've been following for a while then you might remember Francis Chan from a few other posts. Well tonight I found this article. And this is the paragraph that got me most:
Demonstrate your faith by giving dangerously.
In other words, put your money where your mouth is. I came to an elder meeting one morning with this suggestion: If we "love our neighbor as ourselves," then wouldn’t it make sense to spend on our neighbors what we spend on ourselves? What if we set up our budget so that half of our income leaves the church and goes to other ministries? To my surprise, the elders decided that morning to commit half of the budget to people and ministries outside of Cornerstone. It’s been almost a year now, and we’ve been able to give approximately 55 percent of our money away.
Unreal. Can you imagine doing this? As I think about it though, doesn't it make sense? Isn't God's economy so much different than ours? Wouldn't the church be known by its love so much more if we did radical things like this? I pray that to the degree any of us are called to re-steward what we have that we'd be faithful to do so.
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