Breaking the Spirit of Poverty (March 7)

Hope Lives

Compassion changes everything: how you view your world...yourself...even Jesus. While many feel despair at the state of the world we can find hope in Jesus. This two week exploration of compassion is aimed at both head and heart, inspiring a new way to interact with the world.

March 7: Breaking the Spirit of Poverty

Often we fail to give to those in need because we feel we don’t have enough ourselves. We assume that there is a finite amount of resources and if we give generously those resources will run dry and we will be poor ourselves. Instead of believing the Bible that we should operate from a spirit of abundance we instead live in bondage to accumulation and suffer from a spirit of poverty. We can break this spirit of poverty in ourselves is by giving extravagantly – not from our excess but from our necessities. Scarcity vs. Abundance: Deut. 15:10; Prov. 21:13; Prov. 11:24; 1 Tim. 6:17-19; 2 Cor. 9:6, 8, 10-11; The Story of the Widow of Zarephath: 1 Kings 17:7-24; Our Mandate/Response: Isaiah 58; Matthew 25:31-46; 1 Tim. 6:17-19; Ch. 3 Hope Lives Pastor’s Guide

Producer: Rachael Suddarth & Ben Phillips
Set-up: Kris Shermer
Speaker: Colter Bloxom
Music Leader: Joshua Nedrud & Kris Shermer
Sound Tech: David Meyer & Ken Kim
Keynote Tech: Mark Dominguez
Pickup: Joshua Nedrud & David Meyer
Nursery: Heidi Kim
Greeters: Camille Mathieu & Mark Dominguez

Music

Rich Young Ruler – Derek Webb
Twenty-First Time – Monk & Nagle
Give Me Your Eyes – Brandon Heath
Green Disease – Pearl Jam
Sweetest Girl – Wyclef Jean
Mo Money Mo Problems (R&B Montage)

Video

South Park – Margaritaville
Dead Like Me – Taking the soul of a Homeless man
A Tale of Two Cities
Armageddon – Willis sacrifices himself for Afleck
*South Park – Shipping the homeless to California (Maybe tied in to Set-up story abou
Smallville – Chloe dies to save someone
Pushing Daisies or Carnival – Bringing people back to life, but causing another’s death
“Why the Economy Collapsed” video from the web
The Order – Heath Ledger movie about a sin eater
SNL Weekend Update – Scrooge McDuck
Wall Street jubilee – Another World is possible
Seven Pounds
Pay It Forward
Simon Birch
City of Ember – contrasting against how our world is (we don’t have a limited supply like they do)

Drama / Original Video

Hot Mic
Boxer, the horse from Animal Farm – sacrifices again and again until dies

Worship

More Than Us
Lighten My Load
Mighty to Save
Enough
Hungry
How Great is Our God
Everything