{"id":3472,"date":"2010-11-29T04:27:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T10:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=3472"},"modified":"2010-11-29T07:16:25","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T13:16:25","slug":"momentum-building-the-kingdom-of-god-debt-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/momentum-building-the-kingdom-of-god-debt-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Momentum: Building the Kingdom of God, Debt-Free"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Last week, Paula and I attended a <\/span>Momentum<\/span><\/a> conference in Nashville.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t know what that is, I\u2019ll be glad to explain and tell you why you ought to go too.<\/span><\/p>\n

First of all, I love the word <\/span>momentum<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0 It just creates a lot of good energy and feelings.\u00a0 It\u2019s that thing that once you have it, you look better than you really are.\u00a0 And when you lose it, you can actually die as a group, an organization, and even as a person before you get it back.\u00a0 So, enough said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Momentum is a crusade that comes from Dave Ramsey and his amazing army<\/span><\/strong> of gifted and creative men and women who have bought into the mission that winning with money is critical and essential to winning at life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Momentum is a 3-day conference for church leaders to come in and rally around a process by which we can fully-fund all of our ministry and vision needs with cash.\u00a0 That includes our buildings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now before you read that and think, <\/span>\u201cnow isn\u2019t that sweet,\u201d<\/span><\/em> remember <\/span>what a radical idea this is<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 This is flying in the face of convention.\u00a0 If I didn\u2019t know better, I would think these people are renegades.\u00a0 Oh, yeah, I do know better and they <\/span>are<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0 They are trying to change a dangerous trend.\u00a0 And that is, American churches in bondage to financial institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n

We have all heard the verse that the borrower is a slave to the lender.\u00a0 But in American church leadership, those verses have been used more to encourage people to tithe and give more to the Sunday offering, than a bigger vision of <\/span>leading the church forward with more than enough resources to accomplish all of our dreams, visions, and hopes.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is my take on the conference.<\/span><\/p>\n