The IN Factors – Order This Exciting Book Now!

It was offering time in the Sunday school class, and the teacher directed the children to quote a Bible verse about giving as they dropped in their nickels and dimes.  A little Afro-American girl with her hair in meticulously cornrow braids grinned from ear to ear as she dropped in the first coin and quoted, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.”  Her redheaded, freckle-faced friend shyly blushed as she added to the coffer while mumbling, “Give and it shall be given back to you.”  Next, a young guy tossed in what might have been his “tooth fairy money” as he flashed a broad smile that exposed the spot where his front tooth had been last Sunday.  He then recited, “The Lord loves a cheerful giver.”  As the fourth little fellow stumbled through, “The seed in the good soil brought forth thirty-, sixty-, and one-hundred-fold return,” the teacher anxiously eyed the next child — a first-time visitor who had not been schooled in any of the “giving” passages.  Anxious over the fact that the guest would be embarrassed, her heart raced a bit as the offering basket reached him.

As the reluctant little tyke begrudgingly plunked in his contribution, he blurted out, “A fool and his money are soon parted.”   Although the visitor’s quote wasn’t from the Bible, it was apparently more appropriate in his own case than any of the verses with which the teacher had coached the rest of the pupils.  The truth is that most of us, like the students in the elementary class, have been taught only part of the lesson of what God wants us to know about finances.  In The IN Factors, Bible teacher Delron Shirley invites you to join him as he explores some of the lessons that have been taught — but equally important — truths on the topic.