I’m a fan of Seth Godin, a marketing luminary who is passionate about people tackling their purpose and not their wasting time.
I decided, as part of my re-branding process for the Healing Your Financial Soul seminar, to answer his rhetorical questions. I hope this helps you understand where I’m coming from in terms of the purpose of HYFS.
1. Who are you trying to please?
- Stymied Christians whose ideas, dreams, callings and destinies are held hostage by marginal finances and stress.
- The men and women who are pastoring these families and individuals.
- Why? Because I love the Church and its people and families; because I want to see marriages healed, childhoods redeemed and poverty broken; because the Church shouldn’t be so mediocre.
- Financial breakthrough from the inside out – the fruit will speak for itself.
- To break old, self-sabotaging, self-defeating patterns of thinking, believing and behaving regarding money.
- Teaching, prayer, ministry, practical exercises and experiences that break up those old patterns and make room for God-breathed truth and freedom.
- To renew the financial mindsets of Christians to stop living out of need and live lives of depth and generosity.
- Why? Because I needed it. And because I’m frustrated by the mediocrity I see in the Church, the financial lack that holds back generosity in the face of great need.
3. How much money are you trying to make?
- I intend to help a LOT of people with my book and seminars.
- Why? I want fair value for what I’m giving, to provide for Charmaine and live well. And then to see millions of dollars released via the lives of other Christians for the sake of the poor, hungry, thirsty, naked, sick, lame and imprisoned because I want to stand before Jesus and know that I fed, watered, clothed and visited him. Because I love him and he loves those people.
4. How much freedom are you willing to trade for opportunity?
- I am willing to commit 1 or 2 weekends per month to start.
- I am willing to dedicate half of my workweek to this.
- Why? This is more meaningful to me than my other work.
5. What are you trying to change?
- Ooh, just the financial landscape of the Church
- Poverty mindsets and ‘The Lie of Benign Scarcity’
- Financial stress and family tension
- Career mediocrity and business blandness
- Ministry stinginess
- Why? Because it might have helped me when I was in full-time ministry; because I’m tired of how ministry is paired with marginal finances; I’m frustrated by Christians’ meager expectations; I’m saddened by the toll that want takes on marriages and families.
6. What do you want people to say about you?
- “David’s book revolutionized my relationship with God.”
- “David’s material helped heal our marriage.”
- “HYFS brought healing to pain from my childhood.”
- “David’s seminar was fun and changed how I look at money and live my life.”
- “HYFS removed blocks to my career, business, ministry, investing, money management and giving.”
- Why? I want to know I had a hand in changing people’s lives, relationships and experiences of God.”
7. Which people?
- Parents, single parents, business owners, wage earners, executives, pastoral couples, elders, missionaries, students.
- Why? Because they’re all affected by their attitudes toward money. They should all be free to respond to God’s calling based on the merits and relevance of the call, not whether they can “afford it.”
8. Do we care about you?
- If you’re stressed about money, you should.
- I am a credible source.
- Why? I’m an articulate communicator. I’m a former Director of the TACF School of Ministry. I am an ordained minister and prayer minister. I am a prophetic teacher.
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