Crown Catholic Financial Ministry

In many households the broom is kept behind the door.  You use it and put it behind the door until the next time you need it.  Is this what you do with your spiritual life?  Is this what you do with God?  Do you go to church on Sunday (hopefully every Sunday), spend your hour there and then come home and put your spiritual life “behind the door” until next week?

Does the current economic crisis have you running scared?  Why?  Who is your God?  If you are running scared, I would submit that your God isn’t our Creator, but your god is money.  You aren’t content with your life either spiritually or financially and you know that your finances won’t save you, but because you store your spiritual life behind the door, you don’t have your faith to sustain you.

Get involved in your church!  Don’t just put your spiritual life behind the door after church on Sunday.  Go to a Bible study; volunteer to help with the outreach or benevolence program that your church runs.  Volunteer to help with the religious education programs.  Help with a paint up/fix up project.  Do something!

Lastly I urge you to take a Crown Financial Ministries class.  Crown teaches how God can interact with you in your everyday life.  Not just with your money, but also in how you work, how you give, how to train your children, how you make decisions, the way you save and invest, and how you think about eternity.

Get your spiritual life out from behind the door and make it part of your daily life.  Recognize that God is Lord of all.  Recognize that God owns everything; all your “stuff”.  Recognize that God has provided everything that you have.  You are a steward of His possessions.  Once you recognize God’s sovereignty you are on your way to putting your spiritual life in order, and you will find it much easier to put your financial life in order.

Come out from behind the door and be proactive with your life. 

The Bible really doesn’t say anything about money, does it?

 Did you know that there are 2,350 verses in the bible on money, possessions and stewardship, approximately 500 verses on prayer and fewer than 500 verses on faith?  Jesus said more about money and possessions than any other subject. 

Maybe the bible has so much to say about finances because making, managing and spending money consumes so much of our time. 

During the Crusades in the 12^th century, the mercenaries who fought were baptized because it was a “religious” war.  When they were baptized, they held their swords out of the water indicating that Jesus was not in control of their swords.  Today, many people hold their money “out of the water” indicating that God has no place in the financial realm.  So many times we divorce our spiritual lives from our financial situation, when in fact how we handle money has a direct impact on our spiritual lives.

“If therefore, you have not been faithful in the use of worldly wealth, who will entrust the true riches to you?” (Luke 16:11)  Are you being faithful in using the worldly wealth entrusted to you?  

If your life is consumed by materialism, you cannot be spiritual. All too often, despite our best intentions, our ‘secular’ or ‘worldly’ life is controlling our spiritual life.  It should be the other way around - the spiritual must control the material.  Yet, we find that we can’t do anything for our spiritual life because our secular life gets in the way.   Learn what the bible has to say about money possessions and stewardship!!