Sacrifice our Money on Specific Purposes
For those of us who are on board with the Radical Experiment, we have committed to look at all of our expenses within the church, individual and family budgets and begin to view them through the lens of specific need in the world.The hope is to set a cap on our lifestyles so that we can free up as much of our resources as possible to be used for the sake of the glory of Christ in His church, among the lost, and among the poor.
A few weeks into the Radical Experiment I personally believe that this is the most difficult of the 5 commitments to keep. We can discipline ourselves to read and pray daily. But there is always an aspect of dying to self that is involved in saying no to indulging ourselves and saying yes to sacrificing for others in dire need (especially those we have never had the opportunity to meet). Despite the fact that we are aware that 26,000 children will die today of starvation and/or preventable diseases and we are aware that there are more than 1 Billion people who have no access to the Gospel- it is still exceedingly difficult to go without when it comes to our American luxuries. The past 3 weeks have proven that in the Taylor family and I assume it has done so in your life as well.
So, on day 21 of 365 of the Radical Experiment- I wanted to help remind you of why we should be dying daily to our unnecessary purchases on self.
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“We have money to use it in such a way to show money is not our god, but God is our God…Money is not our treasure, Christ is our treasure!” Piper
“Because your steadfast love is better than life” Psalm 63:3