3.0.0 Crown Financial Study
The Crown Financial course is a deeply transformative study designed to guide you towards genuine peace and purpose in your finances, moving beyond just managing money to aligning your entire life with God's design. This journey is about discovering God’s powerful, often contrasting, principles for managing everything He has entrusted to you.
The course begins by unveiling a foundational truth: God is intimately involved in your finances, and He is the ultimate "Lord" or "Final Authority" over all that you possess – your health, wealth, time, family, home, and even your ability to earn. It challenges you to embrace "The Trust Factor," asking if you truly trust God with your whole heart in every financial decision. By applying God's ways, you can anticipate a closer relationship with Him, a reduction in debt, an increase in saving and giving, and a profound sense of contentment and hope for your financial future.
You'll gain insight into God's perspective on borrowing and debt, understanding that while not inherently sinful, borrowing generally isn't God's best, as "the borrower becomes the lender’s slave". The course emphasizes that God supplies where He guides, meaning you shouldn't incur debt to fulfill His calling. A core principle explored is that God is the ultimate Owner, and you are simply a steward or manager of His possessions. This vital understanding is the pathway to true financial freedom.
The journey continues by addressing that financial pressure often stems from attitude, not merely a lack of funds. A crucial step for freedom is to transfer ownership of all your possessions to God as an act of faith, empowering Him to lead you out of debt and into peace. You'll learn practical strategies for controlling spending through self-discipline, understanding purchasing motivations, creating and adhering to a budget, and seeking accountability. The course exposes the symptoms of "modern financial slavery" – excessive worry, poor moods, impulsive spending, and inadequate record-keeping – and offers biblical remedies, starting with reaffirming God’s ownership and accepting His leading through His Word.
Beyond money, the course encourages a holistic inventory of your time, talents, and integrity, recognizing that God desires to use even the smallest gifts to bless others. It challenges the idea of being "too busy to serve", highlighting that financial honesty serves as a "Spiritual Barometer" for your relationship with God, as "you cannot serve God and mammon". You'll discover how God uses money in various ways for your benefit, such as strengthening trust, developing trustworthiness, and demonstrating His faithfulness, and conversely, the areas where God never uses money, like to cause worry or corrupt you. The ultimate vision here is for Christians to be free from debt and worry, enabling them to fund the spread of the Gospel worldwide.
Finally, the course guides you in discerning God's will and cultivating contentment. You'll distinguish between God's general and specific will, ensuring decisions align with Scripture and do not violate His principles, such as incurring large debts. True contentment is defined not as material satisfaction, but as knowing God's plan for your life and living it with conviction, believing His peace surpasses worldly goods. This culminates in a powerful "Dedication Service," where you verbally commit all of life's blessings back to God, acknowledging His ownership and seeking His purposes for their use, reinforcing gratitude and stewardship. This course offers a profound shift from the world's pattern of acquire, enjoy, repay, save, then give, to God's order of dedicate, plan, give, save, repay, then enjoy, leading to genuine financial freedom, hope, and an exciting adventure mapped out by God for your life.
The course begins by unveiling a foundational truth: God is intimately involved in your finances, and He is the ultimate "Lord" or "Final Authority" over all that you possess – your health, wealth, time, family, home, and even your ability to earn. It challenges you to embrace "The Trust Factor," asking if you truly trust God with your whole heart in every financial decision. By applying God's ways, you can anticipate a closer relationship with Him, a reduction in debt, an increase in saving and giving, and a profound sense of contentment and hope for your financial future.
You'll gain insight into God's perspective on borrowing and debt, understanding that while not inherently sinful, borrowing generally isn't God's best, as "the borrower becomes the lender’s slave". The course emphasizes that God supplies where He guides, meaning you shouldn't incur debt to fulfill His calling. A core principle explored is that God is the ultimate Owner, and you are simply a steward or manager of His possessions. This vital understanding is the pathway to true financial freedom.
The journey continues by addressing that financial pressure often stems from attitude, not merely a lack of funds. A crucial step for freedom is to transfer ownership of all your possessions to God as an act of faith, empowering Him to lead you out of debt and into peace. You'll learn practical strategies for controlling spending through self-discipline, understanding purchasing motivations, creating and adhering to a budget, and seeking accountability. The course exposes the symptoms of "modern financial slavery" – excessive worry, poor moods, impulsive spending, and inadequate record-keeping – and offers biblical remedies, starting with reaffirming God’s ownership and accepting His leading through His Word.
Beyond money, the course encourages a holistic inventory of your time, talents, and integrity, recognizing that God desires to use even the smallest gifts to bless others. It challenges the idea of being "too busy to serve", highlighting that financial honesty serves as a "Spiritual Barometer" for your relationship with God, as "you cannot serve God and mammon". You'll discover how God uses money in various ways for your benefit, such as strengthening trust, developing trustworthiness, and demonstrating His faithfulness, and conversely, the areas where God never uses money, like to cause worry or corrupt you. The ultimate vision here is for Christians to be free from debt and worry, enabling them to fund the spread of the Gospel worldwide.
Finally, the course guides you in discerning God's will and cultivating contentment. You'll distinguish between God's general and specific will, ensuring decisions align with Scripture and do not violate His principles, such as incurring large debts. True contentment is defined not as material satisfaction, but as knowing God's plan for your life and living it with conviction, believing His peace surpasses worldly goods. This culminates in a powerful "Dedication Service," where you verbally commit all of life's blessings back to God, acknowledging His ownership and seeking His purposes for their use, reinforcing gratitude and stewardship. This course offers a profound shift from the world's pattern of acquire, enjoy, repay, save, then give, to God's order of dedicate, plan, give, save, repay, then enjoy, leading to genuine financial freedom, hope, and an exciting adventure mapped out by God for your life.
Section 1 Objectives
By the end of this topic, students should be able to:
Section 2 Objectives
By the end of this topic, students should be able to:
Section 3 Objectives
By the end of this topic, students should be able to:
Section 4 Objectives
By the end of this topic, students should be able to:
Section 5 Objectives
By the end of this topic, students should be able to:
Section 6 Objectives
By the end of this topic, students should be able to:
By the end of this topic, students should be able to:
- identify the five purposes for which God calls us
- explain the meaning of Matthew 6:19-20
- compare and contrast the world’s pattern of financial management and God’s way
- describe the two key misconceptions about money
- develop a trust with God concerning personal finances
- create a personal budget for tracking income and expenses
Section 2 Objectives
By the end of this topic, students should be able to:
- discuss the Bible’s stance on borrowing and debt
- explain the conditions for Christians who would charge interest and make collections
- identify the Biblical principles concerning lending money and repaying debts
- develop a spirit of trust in order to work free of indebtedness
- compare and contrast the mindset of ownership versus stewardship
Section 3 Objectives
By the end of this topic, students should be able to:
- discuss how Christians should consider the role of steward over being an owner
- understand the ways in which God provides for daily needs
- defend the idea that God owns everything on the earth
- explain the habits that will help control unnecessary spending
- recognize the dangers that owning too many things has over our spiritual lives
- discuss the most common symptoms of financial slavery
Section 4 Objectives
By the end of this topic, students should be able to:
- construct a personal inventory of skills, talents and possessions
- create a plan to use skills, talents or possessions to help others
- describe the importance of being available to God to be used as He instructs
- develop a method of budgeting time and calendar in order to be available to God
- explain the importance of financial honesty in all situations
- make the connection of maintaining personal finances to a maintaining a healthy relationship with God
Section 5 Objectives
By the end of this topic, students should be able to:
- develop a desire and practice of regular prayer time with God
- explain the ways in which God uses money for our benefit
- explain the ways in which God will not use money
- discuss the negative effects of worrying about money
- discuss how humility self-denial and love for others expresses correct priorities
- identify the true riches that God blesses us with
Section 6 Objectives
By the end of this topic, students should be able to:
- explain how Christians can go about seeking God’s will
- recognize the truths about God that will never change
- reference stories from the Bible that explain who God’s will is revealed
- discuss the basic guidelines for Christians to find true contentment
- list the different types of physical and spiritual gifts we have been blessed with