Message from Bishop Anderson

Sex, Money and the Church Dear Friends in the Anglican Realignment, Of all of the issues confronting humankind, and certainly this includes Anglicans, sex and money capture people's attention and cause more slips and falls than almost anything else. Proper management of one's money can only begin when one acknowledges that God is in charge, and that the money we have and, by extension, the things that money can buy come to us from the hand of God. It is tempting to think that because we work so hard, we deserve the money we receive (or even more, perhaps!), or that we are so smart in making decisions, perhaps in buying and selling, that we have earned every cent which comes to us. The reality is that many do work hard, many are very smart, and sometimes great wealth comes to them. Sometimes, however, the ball takes a strange bounce and our hard work and brilliance come to naught, or worse, to disaster. In reality, hard work and good decisions do position a person for good things to happen, but some would say that chance (I would say God's grace), creates the actual delivery of the success and reward that we hope for. It is proper, therefore, to remember that God is the author and giver of our many blessings, our money, homes, automobiles, bank accounts, etc., and although the governments of the world will take some of those financial blessings away in the form of taxes, we owe the giver of our blessings his small portion, the tithe, in return. When we accept God's understanding of how we receive money and what his expectations are about how we will use it, we increase our capacity to receive all that God has for us. Money has to do with power and control, and we only find peace and prosperity when we acknowledge that we should manage our money according to God's plan, not ours. Following this keeps us out of all sorts of trouble in the financial realm.... Read the rest of Bishop Anderson's article here.