IN CHARGE - BANK OR FAMILY?

FWR Asks: Are Families Winning the Money Wars?

Our society is ruled by money. Our question is: Are our families ruled by money? With two jobs, two mortgages, two cars, two charge cards, two-for-one sales – too much. The evidence is that money rules our families.

Families need a view of their own balance sheet to see clearly if they are winning or losing in the money wars. On their balance sheet there are Givers and Takers. These lists show the two sides to see who controls the family.

The Givers - Who is Helping Families

Health Care - medicines and surgeries

Education - teaching and learning

Social Services - counseling and goods

Churches - faith teaching

Literature - Classical and modern

Work - jobs and pay

Technology - emails and phones

The Takers - Where Money is the Bottom Line

Business - profits

Governments - taxes

Media - advertising

Stores - sales

Travel and Entertainment – prices

Cars - loans and debts

Banks - loans and debts

Insurances - costs for security

With all these, the evidence of their money success is clear in every audit.

From this family balance sheet, the Takers are winning hands down. In other words, the families are working hard to stay out of debt. These Takers are so powerful, what chance does the family have to get ahead?

If families want to be more than victims, they have heavy decisions to make. They must find ways to reverse their spending and the saving ways. This will require new levels of family vision and teamwork.

FWR says:  Families have a choice - be in control or be controlled

CHANGE AND WELLNESS

FWR Asks: What’s the most incredible change in families in 2,000 years?

Most young parents in North America received some sort of religious training. Their parents were folks who worshipped. Both generations learned:

God dramatically gives the good life that overcomes the problems

We have at least five thousand years of history of how God works

The way to faith is by fellowship and prayer

We find security and direction from God’s family of fellowship

All this boils down to becoming those who serve others

Now the children of these young parents receive little spiritual experience. Instead, they are spiritually illiterate as they enter our society riddled with strange beliefs.

After thousands of years when millions of families lived by faith, we are graduating a whole new generation of young people with no knowledge or experience of what has been the foundation of our society.

FWR Asks: Why, in God’s name, is this incredible change happening to families?