3.0.0 Crown Financial Study

This course is a 12-week study designed to help students increase their knowledge of Biblical financial principles, learn how to apply them in their personal financial decisions and grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ. The study is based on God's timeless word on how to handle the resources He has entrusted to us. The course is highly interactive to create both support and accountability in this step toward becoming unburdened by financial challenges. Student will receive practical advice and powerful tool to help them better understand, plan, and manage your finances. 

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3.1.1 Section 1 Objectives
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
  

3.1.2 Section 1 Content

• The Journey Begins
  
• The Trust Factor
  
• The Big Picture
  
• Individual Budget Accounting Page
  

3.2.1 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
  

3.2.2 Section 2 Content

• Borrowing and Debt
  
• Interest and Collections
  
• Christians and Lending Money
  
• Borrowing To Do The Lord’s Work
  
• Ownership or Stewardship
  

3.3.1 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
  

3.3.2 Section 3 Content

• Finding Financial Freedom
  
• How To Control Spending
  
• Material Things Demand Attention
  
• Modern Day Slavery
  

3.4.1 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
  

3.4.2 Section 4 Content

• What Do You Have? Personal inventory Activity
  
• Too Busy To Serve
  
• Financial Honesty
  
• Finances and Your Relationship With God
  

3.5.1 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
  

3.5.2 Section 5 Content

• God and Money
  
• Teaching God’s People God’s Principles
  
• Seeking First God’s Kingdom
  
• Teaching What God’s Word Says

3.6.1 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
  

3.6.2 Section 6 Content

• Knowing God’s Will
  
• God’s Plan for Contentment
  
• Dedicate Everything to God