When you grasp the essence of your life through the lens of Jesus, you realize there's everything to gain and nothing to lose by trying to live like Jesus.

Seeing the World The Eyes of Jesus Requires:
• Be Content With What You Have
• Be Generous With What You Have

Greed is about having more.
Envy is about being more.

Jesus is about giving more.

Greed is about more for you.
Envy is about less for your neighbor.

Jesus is about being enough.

Greed delights in your good fortune.
Envy delights in your neighbor's misfortune.

Jesus delights when we don’t make it about ourselves

Greed is about stuff.
Envy is about status.

Jesus is about serving.

Greed drives us to compare ourselves to others.
Envy drives us to compete with others.

Jesus drives us to love others.

Generosity serves as our lightning bolt against the twin terrors of Greed and Envy.

Generosity is the premeditated, calculated, designated emancipation of personal financial assets.

Premeditated
you have a plan

Calculated
you know how much

Designated
you know where it's going

Emancipation
your posture is open-handed.

Money can add meaning to your life, but money is not the meaning of our life.

Money is a means, but money is never to be the end.

We make our money meaningful when it becomes a means to an end and not the end.

Jesus sees your money as a tool.

We ask: WHAT will I have to show for it?

Jesus asks: WHO will you have to show for it?

What do you have?
How can you use it?

The local church is the best investment you will ever make.
It’s the only investment that will outlive you, outlast you, and out impact you.