Priority: How Are My Finances Spiritual?

Priority: How Are My Finances Spiritual?

Connect

Your groups have been meeting for over a month, and hopefully they have a good rhythm going now.  As you gather this week, I invite you to consider a question together:

What is the hardest thing for you to share?

Pray

The question of Trust is one that we have considered for multiple weeks. “Where does God rank?” is a key question to consider when we are thinking about our financial lives.  As your group holds one another accountable, invite them to pick one of the measures to wrestle with as you share and pray together:

Passionate: Where did I see God today?

Accepting: How am I building diverse relationships?

Invitational: Who am I connecting with God’s family?

Trusting: Where does God rank?

Active: How am I engaged with God’s work?

Reflect

In some ways, this sermon was the most easy to understand.

It may also be the most difficult one to put into practice.  Here’s a one-minute video to review the 3 points of John Wesley’s sermon The Use of Money:

Why does this sermon still resonate today, well over 200 years later?

Invite your group to look at either Malachi 3:6-10 or Matthew 6:19-24 together. 

-Try to read this passage slowly

-What questions does your group have from this passage? 

-What does this passage say to us about being a “steward” of God’s resources? 

Share in your group how you are personally feeling challenged or called to be a better steward of how God has blessed you.