Have you ever heard the analogy that money is like a brick? It’s a fine example, but not nearly dynamic enough in my opinion. Explore with me 5 ways I think money is more like a chainsaw!
Episode Transcript:Intro
0:44 Hi, I’m Alexis Busetti and welcome to That Makes Total Sense! So this is the podcast where we talk about faith finance and everyday life in a way that makes total sense. And one of the things I like to challenge all of us to do is to think about things in a different way. So this may not entail changing our convictions about something or our core beliefs about something. Although I mean that can happen as we learn and as we grow. But really what I like to do is focus on changing the way we think about things so that we can change the way that we interact with the world around us and hopefully make changes for the better. So, this teaching is one of those that I think will help you guys do that.
This was one that, God, I really believe God gave this to me when I was preparing to meet with a group of incredible women on the east coast in a group that I did, I don’t know, a year or two ago. And this was an accountability group of really successful women. We were talking about finances. We were going through, my workbook Entrusted with Money and we were also just keeping each other accountable and helping each other grow. And so one day when I was prepping for that session, just kind of going through the workbook and seeing what we would talk about, I really just felt deeply impressed that God wanted me to give them something new. And I really believe since then, I have taught this at other Bible studies, I have turned it into a blog post, and I really, really feel that this way about thinking about money that I’m about to share with you, it can really change the way you interact with your finances. It can improve your relationship with money. And really in that group, some women experienced some freedom that night. Just some baggage that they had held onto about their money and about their financial situations, that God really released them from that night through this teaching. So it was an incredible night! And I hope and I pray that the Holy Spirit will meet you right where you are. And even though it’s something, it’s a teaching about money, it’s very practical. But I really believe God wants to meet us where we are in all of these things and help us to grow.
So this is, this teaching is actually entitled 5 Ways Money is Like a Chainsaw. And I know that sounds totally wild, right? But you’ve probably heard the teaching, I’ve heard it from a lot of really great money teachers, that money is like a brick. That it’s amoral. It’s not good. It’s not evil. It doesn’t have the capability to behave. It can’t be good or it can’t be bad. It just is. And so just like a brick, money could be used to construct or to build a building, but it could be also used to throw through the window of a building, right? It’s not about the brick itself, it’s not about the money itself. It’s about whose hand it’s in. And I believe that that’s completely valid. I think that’s a great teaching. But what I kept feeling like was it’s not dynamic enough. Money isn’t static like a brick. I mean it isn’t really. It has the capability to be active in our hands. I mean not just static now, just still, like a brick. So I want to start there because money really is a tool and just like a chainsaw or a lawnmower or a hammer or a cement truck, tools have proper uses and improper uses.
So money as a tool has proper uses and improper uses. You can’t use a lawn mower, for example, to cut down a tree. And if you were to use a chainsaw to trim your rose bushes, that would probably be a little bit overkill. Well, the same goes for money. It’s a tool that has proper uses and impr
