Heart, Soul, and Money:A Christian View of Possessions

More than a billion people out of earth's six billion inhabitants live in desperate poverty. Natural disasters, war, corrupt governments, lack of education, disease, unfair trade laws, and false religions all play their part in creating this situation. Conservatively, at least 200 million (one-fifth) of these poor are Bible-believing, born-again Christians.

Over the last thirty years middle-and upper-class Americans, including Christians, have markedly changed their spending patterns. We now eat out on average for nearly 30% of all our meals, compared to only 10% a mere twenty years ago. the amount of money spent on such nonessentials as sports and recreation, lawn care, video and computer games, home entertainment centers, pets, and dieting has skyrocketed. At the same time Christians' per capita giving to charitable causes of all kinds has steadily declined in the last forty years from just under 4% of their total annual income to barely above 2%.

Christian trend-watchers have made two staggering calculations. On the one-hand, if every American Christian simply tithed, the additional amount of money that would be raised above and beyond current giving levels would be enough to eradicate world poverty in our lifetime. Second, the average age of major donors in both church and parachurch organizations is now, for the first time ever, well over sixty-five. Current Christian work is being funded largely by retired people, who lived a more frugal lifestyle a generation ago. Thus, unless patterns of Christian giving change dramatically, a majority of current existing ministries will close their doors for lack of finances within one generation.

This book was written because many Christians today are not willfully choosing to be disobedient to the Scriptures in the area of financial stewardship, they merely are unaware of the Bible's teaching on the subject. This book will take you on a journey thorough the entire Bible as each passage on stewardship is analyzed. We hope this book will be a blessing and encouragement to you to give God all your heart, soul, and money.

Heart, Soul, and Money has 9 chapters and 111 pages.