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The Daily Mess What If God Was Available On The Stock Market Plus Why Arent Churches Supporting More Local · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: That's always asking questions because it's really fun to start
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  Speaker 1: researching for answers such as if God was available on
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  Speaker 1: the stock market, would millions of followers make the investment? Plus,
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  Speaker 1: why aren't these megachurches pouring more money into authentic local
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  Speaker 1: needs versus eh, the typical global outreach. My name is Arrow.
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  Speaker 1: but by doing the research, the picture is always going
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  Speaker 1: to become clearer. This is the daily Mess. What if
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  Speaker 1: God was available on the US stock market, would it
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  Speaker 1: be like prayer, a five to ninety five percent chance
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  Speaker 1: you'll be a strongholder. The general reaction would be people
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  Speaker 1: overtaken by temptation. Yeah, thinking of those prayers as an investment. Now,
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  Speaker 1: in many, many, many spiritual practices, a prayer is never
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  Speaker 1: presented as a transaction. It's a relationship more than a
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  Speaker 1: stock trade. We got to break this down even more.
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  Speaker 1: The stock market promises absolutely nothing, whereas prayer itself, well,
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  Speaker 1: it isn't meant to guarantee a material profit. It invites peace, wisdom, courage, hope,
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  Speaker 1: and a sense of purpose. But if God were on
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  Speaker 1: the stock market, it's likely people would chase the highest
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  Speaker 1: percentage gain. That's not the real world here. Traditions say
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  Speaker 1: value cannot be measured in percentages and or dollars. There's
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  Speaker 1: even a deeper philosophical question. Would people pray only if
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  Speaker 1: there was a ninety five percent return? Or does authentic
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  Speaker 1: faith begin where there is no guarantee? That very question
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  Speaker 1: has been asked over a thousand years. So if it
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  Speaker 1: was true God on the stock market, would stockholders invest
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  Speaker 1: their hard earned money? The research shows yes, it is
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  Speaker 1: a people thing. Spend the money. Now, this might shock you.
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  Speaker 1: Christians invest in prayer every single day because there is
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  Speaker 1: a payoff. It's called strength. In that case, the dividends
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  Speaker 1: are actually spiritual. Coming up next, why aren't these mega
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  Speaker 1: churches investing more in local, local things rather than global? Hey,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for coming back to the daily mess. Why aren't
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  Speaker 1: these mega churches investing millions of their given dollars into
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  Speaker 1: public investments? Not an old, old question. It's been debated
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  Speaker 1: for decades. A mega church using their given money to
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  Speaker 1: invest in public places, local not global. Local. It's so
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  Speaker 1: common in the States to believe that these mega connections
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  Speaker 1: to God are raking in the dough and need to
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  Speaker 1: be more actively involved with local events. Wow, let me
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  Speaker 1: ask you this. Do you know how much it takes
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  Speaker 1: for a church to actually survive salaries and benefits for
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  Speaker 1: the staff. We've got to maintain the church, campus and facilities,
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  Speaker 1: worship services, technology, and even media. The list of church
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  Speaker 1: expenses is so huge that we haven't even gotten into
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  Speaker 1: the small things such as disaster relief, missions, relief and
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  Speaker 1: paying for the construction workers who come there to fix
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  Speaker 1: the building, as well as the part working lots, so
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to complain when you pull in every Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: But the question is why doesn't a church invest directly
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  Speaker 1: into localism, local public things. Those who donate or tithe
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  Speaker 1: share their gifts to support the ministry, not pour cash
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  Speaker 1: into civic investments. Plus, many places of spiritual studies see
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  Speaker 1: their congregations as supporting more things through their ministry rather
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  Speaker 1: than going on public projects. Localism it's an ongoing subject
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  Speaker 1: inside so many competing circles. What do religious institutions owe
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  Speaker 1: their communities? What do they see as their central spiritual mission.
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  Speaker 1: The big question, would you give more to a church
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  Speaker 1: if city council decided, Hey, you guys need to invest
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  Speaker 1: in this public project. Rather than the church making up
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  Speaker 1: their own choices, their determinations, their purpose, their plan, their process,
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  Speaker 1: what would you invest in? I'm er And that's the
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  Speaker 1: daily mess.