Comments on: The Monday Muse: Stimulus Check http://www.jalash.com/2008/05/19/the-monday-muse-stimulus-check/ Pursuing Truth and Love in All Things Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:03:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: burnshead http://www.jalash.com/2008/05/19/the-monday-muse-stimulus-check/comment-page-1/#comment-208 burnshead Wed, 21 May 2008 14:44:45 +0000 http://jalash.wordpress.com/?p=286#comment-208 Well, frankly, no I had not given a ton of thought to this topic prior to you mentioning it. Part of this is because I feel I have a relatively decent grasp of how to handle my finances in a God honoring way to begin with, so I wasn't going to treat the much anticipated stimulus check any differently than I do my other income. I agree that we should be deliberate about the way we spend our money, including the stimulus check. I <b>do not</b> think that Christians should be under any undue obligation - whether real or imagined - to simply donate all of this money to charity. If there are families struggling in debt, living paycheck to paycheck I believe they will be honoring God more by paying down their credit card bills than they will by donating it all to the local mission. At the same time, this same family should not be going out to buy a widescreen TV with their check. Well, frankly, no I had not given a ton of thought to this topic prior to you mentioning it. Part of this is because I feel I have a relatively decent grasp of how to handle my finances in a God honoring way to begin with, so I wasn’t going to treat the much anticipated stimulus check any differently than I do my other income.

I agree that we should be deliberate about the way we spend our money, including the stimulus check. I do not think that Christians should be under any undue obligation – whether real or imagined – to simply donate all of this money to charity.

If there are families struggling in debt, living paycheck to paycheck I believe they will be honoring God more by paying down their credit card bills than they will by donating it all to the local mission. At the same time, this same family should not be going out to buy a widescreen TV with their check.

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