No Strings: Untangling Your Heart's Attachment to Money

by Debbie Swindoll, Monica Romig Green

Welcome to No Strings, a study for Christians seeking true financial freedom in their lives, no matter the size of their bank accounts. Whether you are an individual, couple, small group or leadership team, this twelve lesson experience leads you on an interactive journey to explore money questions with God and your Christian community. No Strings is not about the mechanics of budgeting, saving, or getting out of debt. It looks instead at what Scripture teaches about possessions, finances, and our hearts. The exercises and reflections invite honest and real conversations with yourself and God about what really matters to you regarding money. This interactive study is from Grafted Life Ministries, which published interactive small group materials for churches and Christian communities. Each study is designed to help believers build deep, abiding relationships with God, the Body of Christ, and the world. Study Description Money may be an uncommon dinner table topic, but Jesus didn’t shy away from it, especially when addressing the condition of people’s hearts and their relationship with each other and with Him. It is the rare person among us, though, that can enter into a discussion about money with any measure of the freedom that Jesus possessed. Often a conversation about money, even in church settings, is filled with emotional minefields like guilt, shame, resentment, defensiveness, and even manipulation. We rarely feel safe exploring the topic of our finances because of these reactions. Yet, underneath our fears, we also suspect that we have personal issues with money, ones that can’t be fixed by merely learning new ways to control our behaviors. We can seek to change our actions by setting up financial structures that put boundaries around the way that we spend, save and give; or request the help of financial advisers to make wise money decisions. But as good as these external options are, unless we are willing to look internally at the way our resources affect our emotions, at what motivates our spending decisions, and at the underlying meaning that we attach to the assets that we possess or desire, then we have not explored all that Jesus wants us to evaluate. If we desire lasting change and true freedom regarding money, we need to look at the deeper issues of our hearts.

180 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 2016