Dave has a conversation with Don Goldsmith, financial advisor with Thrivent Financial Services on the topic of cultivating a Kingdom mindset as we make, give and share.

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This week we began our semester long conversation around growing and maximizing our Financial Capital. Starting this journey from Matthew 6:19-34, we discovered from the Sermon on the Mount a little of Jesus’ view and understanding of money. The big thought from these verses was that “how we use our money gives us a peak into what we believe really matters in our lives”. Or to say it another way, “Our finances give us insight about our faith.” During this week’s teaching we learned that God really does care about our financial situation and that how we think through our relationship to money is incredibly important. While Financial Capital is the least of the Five Capitals in order of value, unfortunately an unhealthy attitude toward Financial Capital does lead to too many of our life problems. More friendships, partnerships and marriages end over financial issues than almost any other thing. So, this semester we are going to approach our posture toward money by concentrating around the areas of “Give, Share and Make” in order to help us maximize our Financial Capital in a healthy way.

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This week we completed our last training session on Physical Capital by talking about and demonstrating the benefits of Exercise. Mark and Mo (2 local personal trainers) both explained and demonstrated exercises that anyone could do anywhere at any time. As Dave interviewed Mark and Mo and we talked about creating a culture of health, we also remembered that Jesus was deeply invested in people’s health. Everywhere Jesus went health and healing followed him. This week we end our journey on Physical Capital by processing together some things that we have learned.

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In this teaching we continued our conversation about how to increase our Physical Capital. We talked about the way joy and contentment are directly related to the increase of our time, energy and health. And we saw in Philippians 4:1-14, how Paul was able to live with joy and contentment in whatever situation or state that he found himself. By choosing to act differently, pray continuously and think positively Paul cultivated a life where he learned how not to become a slave to the relentless pursuit of more or a captive of his own outlandish expectations.

This is a way of life that we could learn a lot from today. Too often our hunger and desire for more or our inability to acknowledge our own value or limitations robs us of God’s best for our lives and sends us on an endless goose chase that sabotages our time, energy and health. In the end we spend too much of our lives in a state of worry, anxiety, stress or fear. However, by learning the good news of moderation, limitation and valuation we can regain a proper view of life while maximizing our time, health and energy.

In order to grab hold of this life we must confront the temptations of Appetite, Ambition and Approval. Thankfully, Jesus has led the way for us in this regard. And this week we saw just how the embrace of Moderation in regard to our struggle with Appetite, Limitation in regard to our struggle with Ambition and Valuation in our struggle with Approval set us free to gain the time, energy and health we so desperately need.

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This past week we began our discussion on Physical Capital by talking about our need to define and strengthen our core. Whether we are talking about our physical bodies or our time and energy, it is by defining and strengthening our core that we increase our strength, stamina, flexibility and recovery rate. When our core is undefined or “out of shape” we often find ourselves incapable of living life to our maximum effectiveness. Jesus demonstrates for us what it looks like to live with a defined core. In Mark 12:28-34, Jesus is asked to define the greatest commandment. With incredible focus and definition, Jesus boils down all 613 commandments into 2 undeniable realities—Love God and Love People. From this core, all of Jesus’ ministry functioned with undeniable clarity, focus and strength. This week we followed Jesus’ example to discuss what living from a defined and strengthened core might look like and how it might enable us to maximize our Physical Capital.

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This week Scott Kindig speaks to us about how to maximize our Relational Capital by learning how to build a Family on Mission. Scott walks us through both Old and New Testaments and demonstrates to us how Family on Mission has continued to be on God’s heart from the beginning of time and all throughout the history of humanity. Scott shows us how family for Jesus went beyond biological boundaries and included anyone who does the work or will of God with us. This week we want to begin to think through how we are investing in and creating a Family on Mission that we do life and ministry with together.

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As we seek to grow in investing our relational capital, it is important to know how we are "wired" and how this impacts the way we understand and relate to others. In this training session, guest teacher Cameron Walker gives an overview of the Myers Briggs type theory and some of the traits of each type.

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This week we began our exploration of relational capital, by looking through the book of Acts at the story of Paul. We discovered the way Paul grew in influence and impact with his life as he learned to create a team that functioned as a family. The progress of Paul’s life could be described as follows: Man with the wrong mission to a man with the right mission but who is broken living in a cave to a man on a team, to a man leading a team, to a man leading a team—where half the team deserts him, to a man leading a team that splits to a man leading a team that can get breakthrough but the breakthrough leaves when he does, to a man who’s team can get breakthrough even without him present.

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Growing and sharing Spiritual Capital starts with hearing God speak. But it also means taking what we have heard and putting it into practice. And part of putting it into practice means learning from others. One of the ways we talk about learning from others is a process known as discipleship. Dallas Willard describes discipleship as “the process of becoming who Jesus would be if He were you.” That’s why this week we moved our conversation on Spiritual Capital from hearing the Words of Jesus to practicing the Ways of Jesus. Practicing the ways of Jesus means more than just gaining more information about Jesus. Instead it means combining information with a pathway of imitation and innovation. By beginning to cultivate an atmosphere of faith, hope and love we start discipleship where we are at and not where we want to be. The same goes when we start to disciple others. In imitating others, we learn the ways of Jesus by seeing these ways in the lives of those we learn from. But while imitation is a worthwhile pathway it is never our goal. It is through imitation that we learn to innovate and by innovating we become not the generic version of someone else but our true selves. That’s why we must give ourselves not simply to teaching but also to training and tactics. This week Dave challenged our ordinary view of what it means to think about church by asking us to be the church, not simply go to church—by being a disciple and discipling others.

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Growing and sharing Spiritual Capital starts with hearing God speak. But it also means taking what we have heard and putting it into practice. And part of putting it into practice means learning from others. One of the ways we talk about learning from others is a process known as discipleship. Dallas Willard describes discipleship as “the process of becoming who Jesus would be if He were you.” That’s why this week we moved our conversation on Spiritual Capital from hearing the Words of Jesus to practicing the Ways of Jesus. Practicing the ways of Jesus means more than just gaining more information about Jesus. Instead it means combining information with a pathway of imitation and innovation. By beginning to cultivate an atmosphere of faith, hope and love we start discipleship where we are at and not where we want to be. The same goes when we start to disciple others. In imitating others, we learn the ways of Jesus by seeing these ways in the lives of those we learn from. But while imitation is a worthwhile pathway it is never our goal. It is through imitation that we learn to innovate and by innovating we become not the generic version of someone else but our true selves. That’s why we must give ourselves not simply to teaching but also to training and tactics. This week Dave challenged our ordinary view of what it means to think about church by asking us to be the church, not simply go to church—by being a disciple and discipling others.

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