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December 10, 2008
Pastor's Podcast: One pastor sees debt as ministry opportunity
The response to the first Pastor's Podcast was great, so we decided to do it again.
I mentioned the subject of the second Pastor's Podcast in FREE personal money management tools from Joe Sangl.
The church has been handed a great platform to connect again with the culture and eliminate forever the criticism of being irrelevant and not practical for everyday living. And Joe has taken this opportunity and is leading a crusade from WITHIN the church to offer people in the pews of his church and who live in his community the opportunity to win with money - just like he did.
Pastor, if you don't have a strategy for dealing with debt personally and corporately, this will be one podcast that you won't want to miss.
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What makes Joe's ministry different from so many other personal money managers is that the work and ministry of the Church as a corporate body is at the center of everything he does. He's interested in helping individuals connect with Jesus and the Church through personal money management. That means what he is doing is reproducible in your church too.
Maybe you can't afford to have a "Joe Sangl" on your church staff. That's fine (and shouldn't be an excuse for not addressing this need.) I know you have lay people in your church who have won with money. I do, and I've empowered them to develop and lead what is quickly becoming one of our most successful church ministries as we seek to offer financial and spiritual transformation through a strategic approach to Biblical money management.
The easiest way to get your own copy of Joe's book, I Was Broke, Now I'm Not, and preview other materials for your church is to visit the resource page on his Web site.
I have one request: I need your help. The only way this will help pastors is if they know that this podcast exists. Please distribute a link to this podcast to all the pastors you know. The quicker we can provide practical lifelines to our pastors the better equipped they will be to be the spritiual leader God has called them to be.
Posted by bstroup at December 10, 2008 3:50 PM
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