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True Discipleship: Where is Your Treasure?

It seems clear from the Word of God that believers should be satisfied with food, clothing and housing; that they should be industrious in providing these current needs for their families; and that everything in excess should go into the work of God. They should not try to provide for their own future security, but should trust the Lord for this. The great aim of their life should be to serve the Lord Jesus Christ; everything else should be subordinate to this.

The challenging conclusion from Where is Your Treasure? by William MacDonald (an appendix to True Discipleship).

This entry was posted on Monday, November 29th, 2004 at 12:06 amand is filed under Art/Film/Literature, Open Source Theology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

4 Responses to “True Discipleship: Where is Your Treasure?”

  1. Bob B said on: November 29th, 2004 at 9:20 am

    Ah, here we are, forgive-and-forget christians. Yet,why is it that a post about M-4 assault rifles yields 14 posts, but something biblical recieves only 1? As qouted above: “The great aim of their life should be to serve the Lord Jesus Christ, everything else should be subordinate to this.”

    That includes M-4’s and, yes; Miniguns.

  2. Dave B said on: November 29th, 2004 at 11:00 am

    I’m not the bible scholar that most of you are, but that seems counter to what I remember….

    I remember the man named Job who was very wealthey and was considered to be one of God’s best deciples…

    I also remember… somewhere… somthing about giving %10 of your earnings to the church…

    Also, if the passage above were accurate… it would make god a commie pink-o @#$%^. ;)

    I am also curious if this William MacDonald practices what he preaches.

  3. Matt said on: November 29th, 2004 at 11:52 am

    Dave… intersting comments.

    Job - Old Testament. The example we see in the NT runs contrary to this. Does this mean that there won’t ever be rich Christians? Nope. Read the rest of the book i quoted from ;)

    10% - again, old testament.

    Communism - indeed, the new testament model of church operates a bit like a communism… but on an incredibly small (non-national) and completely selfless scale.

    William MacDonald - as far as I know, he strives his best to..

  4. Dave B said on: November 30th, 2004 at 1:41 am

    Having chatted with Matt on-line a bit. I’ve come to the conclusion that the philosophy that Mr. MacDonald is talking about is a good one… tho perhaps not the best….

    Certianly if he practices what he preaches, as Matt says he “strives to,” Mr. MacDonald is a man I would have enormous respect for, even if I would dis-agree on a few of the finer points… but that is another story.