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The Cure for Greed | Book Club | Part 3

Life.Church with Craig Groeschel

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The Cure for Greed

"God loves a faithful giver because he is the most faithful giver," Paul writes. "The cure for greed is giving cheerfully, and the cure for greedy people is giving faithfully" The author's four-year-old son has been known to give away all of his change at restaurants.

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Speaker 1

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Speaker 2

to me, one of the insidious things is that it creates different expectations. I spend a lot of my time feeling stressed that people are mad at me because i am not able to respond instantaneously to every message that i get. And, like, sometimes they're not and they don't care. But, like, sometimes they are. And there's not an agreed upon standard of what is appropriate socially, or to expect of somebody energetically. Because the only guide line i think we all have imposed on us is, like, what is technologically possible? You know? There's no real limit left at this point yet.

Speaker 1

Eve thin all the time, right? So, but then i think the other shift that really changes the character of emal happens with the broad adoption of smart phones and texted. All o those good parts of emal, all of that flirtationn all of that, like narration of one's day, of one's week, they get sucked out of emal and placed into text. Ya, that's true. Rigt. I don't hate text by any means. But at the same time, like, it just isn't, never

Speaker 2

fails special. Well, that's the thing, we all kind of know on some level, that it's bad form to do something major over text, cause it's a text rit and

Speaker 1

that degradation in forms of like taking all the good stuff away. But then text also adds this other of communication. So the ways that people can get in touch with you proliferates. The number of texts that i send every dayi the amount of communicter communication that i do on all sorts of like, twitter diams, my emal in box, texts, instragram diams, like, all thats just coming in every single direction. And there's no easy way to lter through the urgency of different requests. And this is the other thing too, rite thin ets a flattening. And so it just feels like everything all the time. And also, like, it's a lot of writing. You

Speaker 2

know, yets.