Connecting Point: Called to Serve

Being overly materialistic is a cancer that destroys people and churches. A blind spot, materialism will grow without a healthy conscience to check it.

Pastor Timothy Keller says, “The Bible describes us to be a ministry provider not a ministry consumer.” This is relevant for us today. Sometimes people

are more interested in what they get, rather than what they can give. We must keep the truth front

and center in our lives. God’s grace is what has saved us.

“As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the...