Olive Tree Church

Paul Taylor: A courageous community stops treating it like something to be consumed and start seeing it as an opportunity to invest What if you can chose to invest or consume every resource in your life? If consumption is the using up of something, investment means deploying a resource in order that it creates more wealth in the long run than it would have by using it up in the moment. We can consume our time or invest it. We can give our attention and energy to things offering immediate gratification or focus our attention and energy on things that will offer a return. We can probably even see food choices as an opportunity to consume or invest in our wellbeing. The Bible calls this “sowing and reaping”. This week we will look at how this principle applies to our relationships and see that we can only build a truly satisfying community when we stop treating them like something to be consumed and start seeing them as an opportunity to invest