Ownership: Who Really Owns My Stuff? (January 17)

Speaker: Josh Schaa
Producers: Ryan Miller
Set-up: TBA
Worship Leader: TBA

Description:
One of the first words that children learn is “mine”. They may not understand the concept of ownership yet but they certainly have a desire to own things. With kids it’s often everything. We like to think that we grow out of that mentality but if we’re honest we’re still not very good at sharing or giving – which are parents try to teach us as soon as we start saying “mine”. How can we overcome our obsession with ownership and begin to view our possessions as gifts from God who owns everything? Finding financial freedom is hopeless until we begin to change our minds about what is really ours.

Music
What You Own – RENT
Say – One Republic
Green Disease – Pearl Jam
If I Had it All – Dave Matthews Band
Vultures – Five Iron Frenzy
Beautiful America – Five Iron Frenzy

Worship
Enough
Everything

Video
Fight Club – Your stuff
Finding Nemo – Seagulls “Mine, mine, mine!”
Family Guy – any time that Lois has to be the adult to Peter acting like a kid
Fun with Dick and Jane
HIMYM – Lilly’s class learns a lesson that the gang learns it too
Wall Street – “Greed is good!”
Mr. Deeds
Scrooge McDuck
Envy
SpongeBob – Mr Crabbs always wanting to hold onto his money
Pirates of the Caribbean – Talking to Elizabeth on Black Pearl Barbosa says they were first compelled by their greed then consumed by it.
Don’t buy things You can’t afford – SNL skit

Oppressive Government theme:
City of Ember – The governor
Equilibrium – when they’re breaking all that art stuff?
V for Vendetta – News Director’s treasures

Drama
2 Adults – one gets something new and is showing it to the other and they get more and more infantile

Other concepts
Repo – the Genetic Opera
Stats about ownership versus possession (I posses this car, but the bank actually owns it)

Take home
Chocolate coins
Great Big Green Dollars that say “In God We Trust”
Tag Cars
Property of DR
Property of Jesus