10% is a Good Start
A few more insights from the Q Conference...
- In his talkback session at Buffalo Billiards, Andy Crouch (Power, Privilege & Risk) said that a 10% tithe is a good initial step for Christians when it comes to giving. Ultimately, God would want us to put more and more at risk, until 100% of our lives/resources are staked to the claim that the Gospel is true.
- Dave Goetz (Suburban Addictions) challenged us with “What would happen if we slowed down?” Would it be the worst thing in the world? We have these bloated, self-serving images of ourselves that keep us in this cycle of busyness. We’re ultimately staking our lives to the pursuit of keeping up with our neighbor and finding validity in places other than God. He compared our “schedule oriented culture” to cultures that are more “event oriented.” Event-oriented cultures appear to have a lower quality of life and tend to be less developed countries, but it’s the schedule-oriented cultures that face early death, heart disease, depression, and all sorts of stress-related illnesses.
- Both Gabe Lyons and Rick McKinley brought up a phrase they credited to Tim Keller, “Being counter-cultural for the common good.” I’ll speak more in another post to Gabe’s talk on counter-cultural living versus “being relevant,” but I thought it was great to point out the counter-cultural has a direction.
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