The Credit Card Challenge

Yesterday I issued a credit card challenge as part of my message "Are You Leading the Charge?"

I have challenged our church to pray about cutting up one or more of their credit cards as part of our worship celebration experience next Sunday. Not only that, but we are also asking people to bring all those credit card solicitations and refinance mortgage solicitations and we are going to shred them with paper shredders in our worship space as a way to say we trust God in this life.

Our actions are a way to say that we do not receive worth from the things we can buy with credit cards but from the God who created us in his image and the God who took on flesh through Jesus Christ and through his life, death and resurrection gives us worth. We will be saying through our action that when we are hurt, wounded, facing troubles we will trust in the one who has promised to meet all our needs and not rely on things we can buy and credit crack to make us feel better. And by our actions we are going to say that we understand who God is- that he owns all things and lends them to us to watch over and that if we follow Christ then that makes a difference in every part of our life including our financial life.

So bring those credit cards and solicitations and lets do some cuttin' and shreddin'.