Takeaway: In spite of the fact that some Christians misuse scripture about giving, those portions of scripture are still there and we need to focus on the right meaning, not avoid them.
As I have said before, my wife and I lead a small group of newly married couples. Our next topic is finances. So when I was offered this book to review I read it with that in mind.
This book was written by my pastor. So I am not completely unbiased and I have heard much of this content before in sermons or other teaching.
But the thing that most struck me here is that in spite of the fact that Health and Wealth gospel preachers misuse scripture on giving, God still is interested in how we think about and use our money.
Andy Stanley starts with the fact that we often think about giving wrong. It is not ‘God gets this amount and everything else is ours’. It is God have given all of it to you and you are merely a steward of it all. So God wants us to invest it. That investment should be in God’s kingdom. This does not mean that we can’t use money on things we need, but that if we have the right attitude toward the money, those things that we really need are far less.