Welcome to Sunday Fuel! This series of questions is designed to assist your personal reflection and fellowship with others about the sermon from this past Sunday.

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1. What are some tensions you feel in regard to money? Did any of the questions or issues raised in the sermon reflect those tensions you feel? Admit these to the Lord and ask Him to help you work through them as you reflect on this sermon.
2. Read 1 Timothy 6:6-19 slowly. Why shouldn’t we trust our money? Why should we trust in Christ? 
3. Evaluate your financial faithfulness: How do you view, use or enjoy your money? Consider the three questions posed in this message. 

• Am I content in Christ? Or am I seeking my satisfaction in what money can provide for me? 
• Am I thankful to Christ? Or have His gifts become my gods?
• Am I generous for Christ? Or am I living small, generally only investing in things that build up my life here on earth?

After reviewing these questions, would you consider yourself to be financially faithful? Where do you need to grow? 

4. Look at how you spend your week. Compared to your personal devotional practices, how much more time do you spend thinking about your money?

• Consider how money is both temporary and dangerous. How has it enslaved you? How have you followed it to places you didn’t intend to go? 
• Take time to think about Paul’s doxology in the middle of this passage (vv. 15-16). Pause to mediate on the greatness of our God and commit yourself to trust in Him, not money.
• How can you spend your time this week so that you fuel your faith in God, not money, and show Christ is your great treasure? Some ideas:
  1. Stop fueling your faith in money: stop spending time on shopping sites, social media, or investments if they distract you or fill your mind with lesser things. 
  2. Fuel your heart with His word, worship, good books (John Piper: Living in the Light; Paul Tripp: Redeeming Money; Randy Alcorn: The Treasure Principle)
  3. Spend time with others: learn from generous people, think of ways to be generous as a family.
  4. Invest what you have in a missionary instead of investing it in stocks. 
  5. Fast and let your hunger encourage you to pray for a hunger for God and help you want Him even more than food (or whatever you are fasting from).