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Summer
Series
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PART 2
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76% of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck
Approximately 62% of Americans have no emergency savings for things such as a $1,000 emergency room visit or a $500 car repair
Faced with an emergency, they say they would raise the money by reducing spending elsewhere (26%), borrowing from family and/or friends (16%) or using credit cards (12%).
FINANCES
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51 % divorce rate in marriage in the US
Only 17% of surveyed couples classified them selves as happy
Nearly half of women aged 15 to 44 years old "cohabited" outside of marriage between 2006 and 2010. "Cohabiting couples may be waiting for improved financial stability before they make a decision to marry
MARRIAGE
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Only 14 % of U.S. workers believe they have the perfect job and more than half want to change careers
Nearly 80 % of workers in their 20s said they wanted to change careers, followed by 64 % of 30-somethings and 54% in their 40s.
In New York City 62 percent of workers were somewhat interested in changing careers, compared to 67 percent of workers in Atlanta and 60 percent in Los Angeles.
CAREERS
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Most of the switchers who changed their house of worship without making a residential move (58%) say their old church failed to engage their faith, or put their talents to work, or it seemed hypocritical or judgmental.
But 42% of the people say they switched because another church offered more appealing doctrines and preaching or the preacher and church members' faith seemed more "authentic.“
After years of examining megachurches, is that 80% of the people who join, including those who go through new member classes, are gone within the first two years.“
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP
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(Jas 1:5-8) If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and
upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven
with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
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I.The Definition of Faith
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A.It’s a hope of unseen things
B.It’s a set of beliefs
C.It’s a motivation
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I.The Definition of Faith
II.The Degrees of Faith
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A.It is fundamental on how we deal with God.
B.There are levels of degrees
C.There are additions to your faith
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(Rom 1:17) For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from
faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
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I.The Definition of Faith
II.The Degree of Faith
III.The Double
Mindedness of Faith
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(Jas 1:5-8) If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and
upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that
wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double
minded man is unstable in all his ways.
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Worldview or Faith
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1. Finances
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FINANCIAL FAITH PRINCIPALS
a. God is the source of our finances
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(Php 4:19) But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches
in glory by Christ Jesus.
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(Pro 8:20-21) I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the
paths of judgment: That I may cause those that love me to inherit
substance; and I will fill their treasures.
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FINANCIAL FAITH PRINCIPALS
a. God is the source of our finances
b. Giving Essential to our finances
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(Luk 6:38) Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and
running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure
that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
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(Mat 6:20-21) But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither
moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will
your heart be also.
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FINANCIAL FAITH PRINCIPALS
a. God is the source of our finances
b. Giving Essential to our finances
c. Savings are Prudent to our finances
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(Pro 21:20) There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwelling of
the wise; but a foolish man spendeth it up.
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FINANCIAL FAITH PRINCIPALS
a. God is the source of our finances
b. Giving Essential to our finances
c. Savings are Prudent to our finances
d. Avoid unnecessary debt
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(Pro 22:7) The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to
the lender.
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FINANCIAL FAITH PRINCIPALS
a. God is the source of our finances
b. Giving Essential to our finances
c. Savings are Prudent to our finances
d. Avoid unnecessary debt
e. Contentment is necessary to our finances
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(Heb 13:5) Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be
content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave
thee, nor forsake thee.
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1. Finances
2. Marriage
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MARRIAGE FAITH PRINCIPALS
a. Your marriage is a
picture
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(Eph 5:22-25) Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the
husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of
the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself
for it;
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(Eph 5:31) For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one
flesh.
(Eph 5:32) This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
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MARRIAGE FAITH PRINCIPALS
a. Your marriage is a
picture
b. Each partner has a
role
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(Eph 5:22-25) Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the
husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of
the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself
for it;
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1. Finances
2. Marriage
3.Children
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PARENTING FAITH PRINCIPALS
a. Kids are a
responsibility
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(Pro 22:6) Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not
depart from it.
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(Col 3:21) Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be
discouraged.
(Eph 6:4) And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them
up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
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1. Finances
2. Marriage
3.Children
4. Church Attendance
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(Heb 10:25) Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together,
as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so
much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
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CHURCH MEMBERSHIP FAITH PRINCIPALS
a. You are the
church
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(Rom 16:5) Likewise greet the church that is in their house.
Salute my wellbeloved Epaenetus, who is the
firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.
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(Eph 1:22-23) And hath put all things under his feet, and gave
him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is
his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
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CHURCH MEMBERSHIP FAITH PRINCIPALS
a. You are the
church
b.The home is more important than the geographical church
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(Gal 5:16-18) This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the
flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye
would But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
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(Gal 5:19-21) Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery,
fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance,
emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings,
and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of
God.
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(Gal 5:22) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith,
(Gal 5:23) Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
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1. Finances
2. Marriage
3.Children
4. Church Attendance
5. Emotions
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1. Finances
2. Marriage
3.Children
4. Church Attendance
5. Emotions
6. Career
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1. Finances
2. Marriage
3.Children
4. Church Attendance
7. Morality
5. Emotions
6. Career
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1. Finances
2. Marriage
3.Children
4. Church Attendance
7. Morality
5. Emotions
6. Career
8. Life and Death