Comments on: Our money and our valuables http://www.tysonkirksey.com/2005/11/our-money-and-our-valuables/ Something funny should go here... Mon, 04 Apr 2011 01:47:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Tim Henderson http://www.tysonkirksey.com/2005/11/our-money-and-our-valuables/comment-page-1/#comment-116 Tim Henderson Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:49:22 +0000 http://www.tysonkirksey.com/?p=30#comment-116 I read the other day that the rich give away a higher percentage of their income than the poor or the middle class. I think that rich and poor, middle class and the rich need to change in many of their thought processes. You can be too rich and you can be too poor. I want to provide for my family (1 Tim 5.8), but I also do not want to train they to always want more. Paul had the right attitude (Philippians 4.11-12). Contentment is the value, but our whole society is driven by wanting more. Rich Mullins said it correctly: Everybody I know says they need just one thing And what they really mean is that they need just one thing more And everybody seems to think they've got it coming Well I know that I don't deserve You Still I want to love and serve You more and more You're my one thing Tim I read the other day that the rich give away a higher percentage of their income than the poor or the middle class. I think that rich and poor, middle class and the rich need to change in many of their thought processes. You can be too rich and you can be too poor. I want to provide for my family (1 Tim 5.8), but I also do not want to train they to always want more. Paul had the right attitude (Philippians 4.11-12). Contentment is the value, but our whole society is driven by wanting more. Rich Mullins said it correctly:

Everybody I know says they need just one thing
And what they really mean is that they need just one thing more
And everybody seems to think they’ve got it coming
Well I know that I don’t deserve You
Still I want to love and serve You more and more
You’re my one thing

Tim

]]> By: Bryan Tarpley http://www.tysonkirksey.com/2005/11/our-money-and-our-valuables/comment-page-1/#comment-106 Bryan Tarpley Thu, 17 Nov 2005 04:45:17 +0000 http://www.tysonkirksey.com/?p=30#comment-106 Being a socialist at heart, I am naturally biased on this issue. I know that there is such a thing as a responsible use of large amounts of money. I also know that the have-nots can idolize money as much as the haves. I still can't get rid of my instinctive negative reaction to the idea of being materialistically rich. There is something inherent in the gospel which favors the poor. I think what I'm supposed to say here is that it depends on the person. I'm supposed to say that the rich young ruler needed to give up his possesions not because he had them but because he idolized them. I still can't shake the eye of the needle verse. I still think that the ideal would be to spend the meat of one's days doing something other than acquiring wealth. Being a socialist at heart, I am naturally biased on this issue. I know that there is such a thing as a responsible use of large amounts of money. I also know that the have-nots can idolize money as much as the haves. I still can’t get rid of my instinctive negative reaction to the idea of being materialistically rich. There is something inherent in the gospel which favors the poor. I think what I’m supposed to say here is that it depends on the person. I’m supposed to say that the rich young ruler needed to give up his possesions not because he had them but because he idolized them. I still can’t shake the eye of the needle verse. I still think that the ideal would be to spend the meat of one’s days doing something other than acquiring wealth.

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