God's Growth Fund by Michael Cadrette

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God's Growth Fund

Published on Nov 18, 2015

God's Five Investment Funds

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Where do you put your resources?

25 pages of failed banks since 2000

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Destroyed - eaten
Depreciated - rusted
Depleted - stolen
Matthew 6:19-20

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God's Growth Fund

Using money to grow my character

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We tend to spend our money on comfort, but God says spend it on character

Luke 2:52

Intellectual growth
Physical growth
Spiritual growth
Social Growth

Example for each......way to develop here

take a class

exercise

men's retreat - Canada

Emotions 2.0 great bridge into the fruit of the spirit

Money is a kind of fertilizer. If you pile it up it starts stinking. But when you spread it around it makes things grow.

Buy the truth and do not sell it—
wisdom, instruction and insight as well. Proverbs 23:23

God's Mutual Fund

Using money to encourage one another

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10.

2 Corinthians 9:12-13

It helps others
It meets needs in others
Brings thanks to God
Illustrates our faith

11.

Romans 12:13
Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.

12.

3 John 1:5
Dear friend, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers and sisters, even though they are strangers to you.

You are practicing faith - doing it, living it out.....context here is caring for travelling teachers who come to visit the church and need a place to stay

13.

God's Service Fund

Using money to serve others

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14.

Ecclesiastes 11:1-2 MSG
Be generous: Invest in acts of charity. Charity yields high returns. Don’t hoard your goods; spread them around. Be a blessing to others. This could be your last night.

15.

Do your givin' while you're livin'.....

16.

Ministry List

Let's review it together

17.

James 2:15-17 NIV
Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

18.

Ways we serve others

Food truck
Benevolence
Meals ministry
Pastoral Care

19.

Proverbs 19:17 NIV
Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord,
and he will reward them for what they have done.

20.

God's Global Fund

Using money to bring others to Jesus

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21.

3 John 3:5-8
Dear friend, you are faithful in
what you are doing for the
brothers and sisters,even though they are strangers to you. They have told the church about your love. Please send them on
their way in a manner that honors God.

22.

3 John 3:5-8
It was for the sake of the Name that they went out, receiving no help from the pagans. We ought therefore to show hospitality to such people so that we may work together for the truth.

23.

Our Global Work

VBS, Food truck, Wayfarer
Guatemala - going/funding
Ireland
Russia
Taiwan
Germany
4 College Campuses

24.

God's Treasury Fund

Using money to worship God

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25.

Proverbs 3:9
Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops

26.

Revelation 4 and 5
They lay their crowns before the throne and say: “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power......

27.

Luke 12:34
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

28.

Where is your heart?

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29.

....if your treasure is here on earth,...every day you are moving further and further away from your treasure. You’re moving further and further away from the things you’re going to leave behind.
Rick Warren

I want you to know that if your treasure is here on earth, what’s most important to you are the things on this earth, that every day you are moving further and further away from your treasure. Because every day you are here on earth, you’ve got one less day here on earth. You’re moving further and further away from the things you’re going to leave behind.

On the other hand, if you’re storing up treasure in heaven through the Growth Fund, through the Mutual Fund, if you’re storing up treasure in heaven through the Global Fund, if you’re storing up treasure in heaven through the Treasury Fund and the Service Fund and you’re using your money for good, to serve the purposes God put you on this planet for, then you’re storing up in heaven every day. You’re getting closer and closer to your treasure instead of further and further away.

30.

Where are your resources?

Growth Fund
Mutual Fund
Service Fund
Global Fund
Treasury Fund

31.

I'm Asking

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Where do you put your resources?

Destroyed - eatenDepreciated - rustedDepleted - stolenMatthew 6:19-20

Untitled Slide

God's Growth Fund

We tend to spend our money on comfort, but God says spend it on character

Luke 2:52

Money is a kind of fertilizer. If you pile it up it starts stinking. But when you spread it around it makes things grow.

Buy the truth and do not sell it— wisdom, instruction and insight as well. Proverbs 23:23

God's Mutual Fund

2 Corinthians 9:12-13

Romans 12:13Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.

3 John 1:5Dear friend, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers and sisters, even though they are strangers to you.

God's Service Fund

Ecclesiastes 11:1-2 MSGBe generous: Invest in acts of charity. Charity yields high returns. Don’t hoard your goods; spread them around. Be a blessing to others. This could be your last night.

Do your givin' while you're livin'.....

Ministry List

James 2:15-17 NIVSuppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

Ways we serve others

Proverbs 19:17 NIVWhoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done.

God's Global Fund

3 John 3:5-8Dear friend, you are faithful inwhat you are doing for thebrothers and sisters,even though they are strangers to you. They have told the church about your love. Please send them ontheir way in a manner that honors God.

3 John 3:5-8 It was for the sake of the Name that they went out, receiving no help from the pagans. We ought therefore to show hospitality to such people so that we may work together for the truth.

Our Global Work

God's Treasury Fund

Proverbs 3:9Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops

Revelation 4 and 5They lay their crowns before the throne and say: “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power......

Luke 12:34For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Where is your heart?

....if your treasure is here on earth,...every day you are moving further and further away from your treasure. You’re moving further and further away from the things you’re going to leave behind.Rick Warren

Where are your resources?

I'm Asking

Michael Cadrette

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Destroyed - eaten
Depreciated - rusted
Depleted - stolen
Matthew 6:19-20

Buy the truth and do not sell it—
wisdom, instruction and insight as well. Proverbs 23:23

Romans 12:13
Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.

3 John 1:5
Dear friend, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers and sisters, even though they are strangers to you.

Ecclesiastes 11:1-2 MSG
Be generous: Invest in acts of charity. Charity yields high returns. Don’t hoard your goods; spread them around. Be a blessing to others. This could be your last night.

James 2:15-17 NIV
Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

Proverbs 19:17 NIV
Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord,
and he will reward them for what they have done.

3 John 3:5-8
Dear friend, you are faithful in
what you are doing for the
brothers and sisters,even though they are strangers to you. They have told the church about your love. Please send them on
their way in a manner that honors God.

3 John 3:5-8
It was for the sake of the Name that they went out, receiving no help from the pagans. We ought therefore to show hospitality to such people so that we may work together for the truth.

Proverbs 3:9
Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops

Revelation 4 and 5
They lay their crowns before the throne and say: “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power......

Luke 12:34
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

....if your treasure is here on earth,...every day you are moving further and further away from your treasure. You’re moving further and further away from the things you’re going to leave behind.
Rick Warren