Rev. Swagata Das : Why talk about money? Is it necessary to talk about money in the ministry? The Diocese of Durgapur organized two days training for all the presbyters to discuss about the “God’s Financial Principles”. The training started on 29Th’ may 2009 with the morning Eucharist Service where our former Bishop the Rt. Rev. O. K. Tirkey was the celebrant. The Bishop and speaker Mr. Sherif Danial were given us the teachings on faithfulness, honesty and giving to God. When we are faithful we will be benefited in three ways: we will grow closer to Jesus Christ, we will begin to have financial stability and we will develop good characters. The speaker’s main focus was that we must be like a God’s spokesperson and our lives should be Christ centered. They were also talking about that God is a controller, provider and sustained and we are the manager. We had a group discussion on the topic giving the tithe because God is the owner & giver of all. The whole training gave us the teaching on, what is God’s responsibilities and our responsibilities, what is work ethic because God created work for our benefit, how to give, save and spend the money, why we need honesty. In the time of sharing we made a covenant that we will not only be a listener but also share these programme to our family & congregation. At the end of these programme all the presbyters have received the certificate from the Crown Financial Ministry and in the last we can say that God has give us all the things what we need but we must know how to handle it and how to save it faithfully.
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