The Blueprint for Financial Success, Significance & Satisfaction
Missional Money offers a tool called the Blueprint (Download the PDF here) which is designed to help people build financial, emotional, and spiritual muscle. The Blueprint uses the metaphor of building a house to illustrate the process of developing a successful financial life strategy. To become familiar with this metaphor and the process, request your free copy of Make Your Money Count and read Chapter 4; “The Blueprint for Financial Success”.
Who Can Benefit From The Blueprint?
The Blueprint was designed to help you achieve success, significance, and satisfaction. Small group leaders, coaches, and mentors can use each element of The Blueprint to guide a friend, family member or small group through the entire process “from soup to nuts.”
Solomon’s Blueprint
King Solomon was the classic example of someone who lived under the illusion of consumerism. He had fabulous wealth, and he indulged himself on parties, infinite sex, palatial homes, and possessions beyond counting. But all the wealth and pleasure in the world couldn’t fill the hole in his heart. He complained, “I've been king over Israel in Jerusalem. I looked most carefully into everything, searched out all that is done on this earth. And let me tell you, there's not much to write home about. God hasn't made it easy for us. I've seen it all and it's nothing but smoke—smoke, and spitting into the wind” (Ecclesiastes 1:12-14). Even though he was disillusioned, God gave him wisdom to understand how life is supposed to work. At the end of Solomon’s grand, self-indulgent experiment, he warned that everything in life is meaningless without God. But life doesn’t have to be that way.
Your Blueprint for Financial Freedom – Contentment
The Blueprint helps each of us develop “a sixth sense” in managing our money by first becoming clearer about our higher purpose. When our lives are directed by a transcendent purpose, money can just be money. It no longer becomes our master, and we don’t have to have it to gain some kind of social status. We can give money away or buy a house, and it doesn’t own us. Following the teachings of Jesus brings freedom from the illusion and vanity of consumerism; spiritual vitality can choke out the weeds of consumerism so that we become full of life, power, and purpose. Missional Money small group training is designed to help people discover the higher purpose we are all dying for. Everything else under the sun is running on a treadmill. My hope is that you’ll honestly evaluate life, and you’ll begin to look beyond the Sun. And I hope Missional Money and The Blueprint help us develop—even more fully—the sixth sense of faith in Jesus Christ.