Last month I finished reading Tom Sine's "The New Conspirators". Toward the end of the book there is a chapter about the challenges to each of the "wealth classes" in the world. I don't personally know any of the world's "super-wealthy" (although after last week I am sure there are fewer of them), and I am not sure I really know anyone with even moderate wealth. I was very interested in what he said about the middle class, the lower class, and the world's poor.
The section on the middle class identified debt as a hindrance to being part of the Kingdom Conspiracy and suggested that the church needs to look at a plan to help the middle class quickly shed their debt and expand their ability to help the poor.
Our small body of Jesus had already had an initial conversation about debt reduction so we had a second discussion and several families have banded together to rid ourselves of debt. In less than 3 years we will only have house payments and in approximately 8 years all of us will have our homes completely paid for.
Monday, October 13, 2008
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