[amc] a note from the pastor
- From: "garland robertson" <pastor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Austin Mennonite Church" <amc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:22:01 -0600
Members and Friends of Austin Mennonite Church
I trust you are finding contentment as you spend yourself in service to
God's kingdom.
All of us must find a way to use money in the context of making our lives.
Even if we want to avoid managing money, the chance of ignoring money is
beyond our reach. Eventually we must establish a way to include money in
the organization of how we live. We recognize early the lure of money.
Money is power. Money can change our circumstances. Money gives us
options, makes choices possible for us, even tempts us to believe that if we
only had enough of it we would no longer be unfulfilled--money can certainly
enable us to find happiness. The scriptures we will consider this next
Sunday (Amos 8:4-7; Luke 16:1-13) describe money as a resource that,
although peculiarly positioned to create disruption and foster greed, can be
useful in fashioning the life God has intended for us to cultivate. What
kind of considerations determines whether money will be a source for
enabling good or an influence that advances evil? The answer seems to lie
in our attitude toward our life in the earth: Do we expect meaning and
pleasure to come to us from the potential of money to manipulate our
circumstances or rather from the capacity of respectful relationships to
enrich and nourish life? These thoughts will compose the sermon for this
next Sunday, 'Using money to promote peace.'
May it go well with you. Sincerely,
Garland Robertson
...always hold firmly to the thought that each one of us can do something to
bring some portion of misery to an end
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