My poor dad always said to me, “Go to school and get a job.” While he had the best intentions, what he was really encouraging me to do was to grow up and mind somebody else’s business. In other words, become an employee and make somebody else rich. Regardless of who you are, one of the most important things you can do is to take responsibility for your own financial well-being by minding your own business. Your own business is the asset column on your financial statement.
Although the subject matter of this essay has been brewing over a long season, its present impetus stems from writing the commentary on Paul’s letter to the Philippians during Winter and Spring of 1994. As I worked through Paul’s text with great care, I experienced an ongoing encounter with the living God — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — an encounter which happened in two ways. On the one hand, as I exegeted the text so as to articulate its meaning for the sake of others in the church, I was often myself so overcome by the power of the Word that I was brought to tears, to joy, to prayer, or to praise. On the other hand, I was also regularly experiencing the text of this letter in church settings, in such overwhelming ways, that I felt compelled to mention it in the final paragraph of the Author’s Preface: Click Here To Download The Book

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