The Treasure Principle, Revised and Updated: Unlocking the Secret of Joyful Giving - Hardcover

Alcorn, Randy

 
9780735290327: The Treasure Principle, Revised and Updated: Unlocking the Secret of Joyful Giving
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0735290326 ISBN 13: 9780735290327
Verlag: Multnomah, 2017

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Discover how the joy of giving can make your life richer, starting today.

Bestselling author Randy Alcorn introduced readers to a revolution in material freedom and radical generosity with the release of the original The Treasure Principle in 2001. Now the revision to the compact, perennial bestseller includes a provocative new concluding chapter depicting God asking a believer questions about his stewardship over material resources.

Jesus spent more time talking about money and possessions than about heaven and hell combined. But too often we’ve overlooked or misunderstood his most profound teaching on this topic, from his words in Matthew 6. Jesus offers us life-changing investment advice. He actually wants us to store up treasures for ourselves—just not here on earth. Instead, he urges us to store our treasure in heaven, where they will await us, and last forever. We can’t take it with us—but we can send it on ahead!

Readers are moved from the realms of thoughtful Bible exposition into the highly personal arena of everyday life. Because when Jesus told His followers to “lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven,” He intended that they discover an astounding secret: how joyful giving brings God maximum glory and His children maximum pleasure. In The Treasure Principle, you’ll unearth a radical teaching of Jesus—a secret wrapped up in giving.

Once you discover this secret, life will never look the same. And you won’t want it to be. 

“Supercharged with stunning, divine truth! Lightning struck over and over as I read it.” 
- John Piper, Senior Pastor, Bethlehem Baptist Church, Minneapolis

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Randy Alcorn is the founder and director of Eternal Perspectives Ministries and a New York Times bestselling author of 50-some books, including Heaven and Face to Face with Jesus. His books have sold over 11 million copies and been translated into more than 70 languages. Randy lives in Oregon with his wife, Nanci. They have two grown daughters and five grandchildren.

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Preface to the Revisedand Updated 2017 Edition


When I was writing The Treasure Principle in 2000, someone on the publisher’s marketing team said, “So we’re going to ask people to spend money to buy your book so you can persuade them to give away lots of money?”

Well, there’s more to it than that, but in a way the answer was yes. It’s safe to say that seventeen years ago, when people were brainstorming book ideas with strong reader appeal, nobody—including me—was thinking, “I know—let’s do a book about giving. It’ll sell a million copies!”

Yet as I write this, The Treasure Principle has sold nearly two million copies. It has been distributed in thousands of churches and by hundreds of ministries. Businessmen and financial advisors routinely give it to their clients. The book has been translated into twenty-nine languages, including Chinese, Bengali, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Greek, Indonesian, Korean, Japanese, Latvian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Polish, Portuguese, Vietnamese, and Arabic.

God has used The Treasure Principle, as well as my larger work on stewardship, Money, Possessions, and Eternity1, to play a strategic role in the Generous Giving movement (www.generousgiving.org) that has touched countless followers of Christ and furthered missions and relief and development work worldwide.

I’ve received hundreds of letters and e-mails detailing radical choices, enduring life changes, and greatly multiplied joy as a result of embracing the truths in this book. One reader wrote, “I picked up The Treasure Principle and started reading aloud, and the Holy Spirit worked with lightning speed. I had perfect clarity of mission. It wasn’t about me anymore.”

A mother e-mailed, “My eleven-year-old son gets five dollars per week. We taught him that fifty cents was his tithe. He chose to give a dollar. After reading The Treasure Principle, I asked, ‘If I were to raise your allowance to six dollars a week, how would you use the extra dollar?’ He immediately said, ‘I would give two dollars.’ This is just a small part of what is going on in our household.”

My favorite letters are from young people, such as this one: “I am twelve years old. The Treasure Principle encouraged me to give at my church every week. It helped me learn that God owns everything and I just take care of it. It helped me to give more and not spend as much on things I don’t need.”

Responses describing the far-reaching joy from the adventure of giving are especially gratifying. Some write of large-scale life changes, including selling their real estate, jewelry, and collections, and giving the proceeds to missions.

They express deep thanks to God for the infusion of happiness that goes far beyond all expectations.

Whether the changes have been sweeping or seemingly small, these readers have experienced what I intended this book to be mainly about: enhanced joy from giving.

Honestly, at times I’ve been overwhelmed by the impact. I’m profoundly aware that anything God has done through The Treasure Principle is a work of grace on His part, and to His glory. I know without a doubt that He has used the God-breathed Scripture highlighted throughout the book to joyfully transform hearts.

I’m grateful, too, that all the book royalties have been and will continue to be given away to further God’s kingdom. If my wife, Nanci, and I didn’t personally know the unrivaled joy of giving, I wouldn’t have been able to write The Treasure Principle.

To revise a work that many people have said changed their lives is daunting. I am adjusting a book that has traveled farther and wider than perhaps any work I’ve ever written, with the possible exception of Heaven. What if my revision reduces, rather than enhances, the book’s power? But by making clearer some parts that readers occasionally have misunderstood, I hope I’ve made it better. My prayer is that the revision, which includes the all-new chapter “Was Jesus Really Talking About Financial Giving?” and a Q&A section, helps both new and old readers.

I also want to thank again my wonderful wife, Nanci, who has walked this path of giving with me. Our hearts are filled with gratefulness to God for all He is and all He has given. We thank Him for all He empowers His people to give for the good of others, for the good of the giver, and for the glory of the ultimate Giver:

“But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? Everything comes from you, and we have given you only what comes from your hand” (1 Chronicles 29:14).

Randy Alcorn

Introduction

All your life, you’ve been on a treasure hunt. You’ve been searching for a perfect person and a perfect place. If you’re a Christian, you’ve already met that person—Jesus. And you’re headed to that place—Heaven.

But there’s a problem. You’re not yet living with Him in that place!

If you’ve asked Jesus Christ to forgive your sins, He’s rescued you from eternal condemnation and given you new life. Your salvation isn’t dependent on anything you have done or will ever do. Rather, it’s God’s gift to you, secured by Christ’s death and resurrection. This is the Gospel, the “good news of happiness” (Isaiah 52:7, esv), the “good news of great joy” (Luke 2:10, esv).

Being saved from your sins is not about you giving to God; it’s about God giving to you.

If you don’t know Him, placing your faith in Jesus is the best choice you can ever make. By God’s empowering grace, I pray you’ll do it soon.

However, it’s possible you already have a relationship with Jesus but feel you aren’t experiencing the joy God intends. Maybe you attend church regularly, pray, and read the Bible. But life can still be drudgery, can’t it? You dutifully put one foot in front of the other, plodding across the hot, barren ground, longing for an elusive joy you can’t seem to find. You sense something is missing, but you don’t know what.

Jesus addressed that missing element when He told a story about a hidden treasure that, once discovered, brings life-changing joy. But before we start on our journey, I want you to know something. Some books try to motivate giving out of guilt. This isn’t one of them.

This book is about something else—the joy of giving. The Treasure Principle has long been buried. It’s time to unearth this simple yet profound idea—one with radical implications. Once you grasp it and put it into practice, nothing will ever look the same. And you won’t want it to.

When you discover the secret joy of the Treasure Principle, I guarantee you’ll never be content with less.

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Buried Treasure

He is no fool who gives what he cannotkeep to gain that which he cannot lose. Jim Elliot

A first-century Hebrew walks alone on a hot afternoon, staff in hand. His shoulders are stooped, his tunic stained with sweat. But he doesn’t stop to rest. He has pressing business in the city.

He veers off the road into a field, seeking a shortcut. The owner won’t mind—travelers are permitted this courtesy. The field is uneven. To keep his balance he thrusts his staff into the dirt.

Thunk. The staff strikes something hard.

He stops, wipes his brow, and pokes again.

Thunk. Something’s under there, and it’s not a rock. The weary traveler’s curiosity wins out. He jabs at the...

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Verlag
Multnomah
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0735290326
ISBN 13 
9780735290327
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Anzahl der Seiten
160
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