Time 2 Build

As you know, we are going into a stewardship campaign call "Time to Build".
Thru the month of April I have been preaching a series of messages on Biblical Stewardship.
Below is a great article by Ron Blue on "Unburied Treasure"
Enjoy!

Published by Ronald Blue & Co., LLC
What comes to mind when you hear the word, “treasure”?
What kinds of things would you list as your treasures? How has
that list changed over time?

The natural tendency for many of us is to believe that our treasures (our time, our skills, our
relationships, our money) follow our hearts (our interests, our focus, our energy). Jesus said the
opposite –our hearts will be wherever our treasure is.


How have you seen your heart follow one of the treasures you shared about above?
Where have you been investing your treasures recently? How can you invest your treasures to
more effectively line up with where you want your heart to be?

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
- Matthew 6:21

Very few people in our world are offering anything worth dying for. Most of the messages we receive are
about how to make life easier. The call of Jesus goes the other direction: It's about making our lives more
difficult. It is going out of our way to be more generous and disciplined and loving and free. It is refusing
to escape and become numb to and check out of this broken, fractured world.
- Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis

But what I know even more surely is that the greatest joy in God comes from giving his gifts away not in
hoarding them for ourselves. It is good to work and have. It is better to work and have in order to give.
God's glory shines more brightly when he satisfies us in times of loss than when he provides for us in
times of plenty. The health, wealth and prosperity "gospel" swallows up the beauty of Christ in the beauty
of his gifts and turns the gifts into idols. The world is not impressed when Christians get rich and say
thanks to God. They are impressed when God is so satisfying that we give our riches away for Christ's
sake and count it gain.
- John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life


What is your reaction to Jesus’ words about our treasures and our hearts?
How does this quote relate to Jesus’ words about treasure?
How does this quote relate to Jesus’ words about treasure?