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How I feel during most ‘worship’ services.

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I attended the CCDA conference in St. Louis this past week (thus the brief blog hiatus). It was an incredible conference and a very encouraging experience. I didn’t do much in the way of notes and things, so I don’t have a lot to post for you. However, I did find some old CCDA video on youtube, and this one from Wayne Gordon is right on. It’s about the often misquoted passage, “The poor will always be among you.”
The video is 40+ minutes long, but just listen to the first …

What if we took all our money and possessions and gave them all to God & had to ask to use them. Would we spend money the same way? -Keane

I’m going to keep this short and practical. I realize budgets will vary from city to city and based on circumstances, but I think we can have a fairly frank talk about the amount of money we are spending. I’m not saying we’ll settle on a ‘Jesus says you should live by this budget’, but we will hopefully have a honest discussion about things. I’ll just throw this out off the top of my head to get the discussion going:
Monthly Budget 

Rent/Utilities/etc- $500
Food- $100 (per person)
Car (insurance/gas)- $100
Miscellaneous- $100
Emergency- $100
Fun Money- …

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