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FAITH & FINANCE Why we need to rethink money Solving the debt headache Tithing isn’t giving God a tip!

PLUS Kissagram girl who kissed a preacher, then married one!

STAMPING OUT SLAVERY IN THE UK

How churches can help in the fight against trafficking

DISPELLING SUICIDE MYTHS

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CONTENTS SPECIAL FINANCE FEATURE

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EDITORIAL John Glass looks at the love of money

28 GOD’S MANDATE FOR BURMA Sarah Armitage on relief efforts there

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TITHING ISN’T GIVING GOD A TIP Elim minister Phil Weaver looks at tithes as he introduces our special feature on finance

30 THE TRUTH ABOUT TRAFFICKING Ben Cooley, CEO of Hope for Justice, is on a mission to end slavery in the UK

10 WHY WE MUST RETHINK MONEY Mark Ryan believes a new relationship with money is needed not a ‘keep calm’ attitude

32 HOW MY FAITH HELPED ME COPE Losing her husband and son devastated Ruth Thorner, but her faith helped her

12 SOLVING THE DEBT HEADACHE How Elim churches across the nation are working to help families on the breadline

33 MUSIC REVIEWS with Ian Yates

17 YIELD TO GOD, NOT MONEY When it comes to giving, we must nail our colours to the mast, says John Lacy

36 IT’S TIME TO RE-DIG THE WELL Elim REACH’s Tony Sands shares his passion for The Big Centenary Ask

18 THE DANGERS OF LOVING MONEY It has the power to destroy, explains David Holdaway, but money isn’t all bad

38 I THANK GOD FOR MY CAREER says Fabrice Muamba as he retires from football

20 OUT AND ABOUT WITH THE GS John Glass opens his diary

35 MESSAGE ON THE STREETS Eula Coleman is spreading the gospel

40 THE FACTS BEHIND DIABETES Dr Sharon Kane explains the condition

22 NEWS from Elim and the wider church

42 THERE’S ONLY ONE ANSWER says Barry Killick as he looks at eternity

25 WHAT DOES YOUR REFLECTION SAY? Mirror, mirror on the wall… it’s time for a spiritual check-up, says Liz McMeekin

44 LOOKING FOR A BETTER DAY Nigel Tween explodes myths about suicide

26 THE FIRST TIME I WENT TO CHURCH Elim member Lynda Heron recalls her first experience in church as a kissagram!

49 ANSWERS with Andrew Fadoju

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Love of money is root of evil Truth taken to an extreme very soon degenerates into heresy. This is never more clearly the case than in a consideration of the Christian’s attitude to possessions.

A larger proportion of the teaching of Jesus than we might imagine has to do with our attitude to material things, and this is because if we are not able to hold our possessions lightly then they will very soon begin to possess us.

There are those who would have us believe that unless we buy all our clothes in charity shops we are devoid of spirituality. There are others that promulgate prosperity teaching – the theology of the spoilt child – in an effort to convince us that unless we are wearing the best labels, dining at the best restaurants and living in the most luxuriant homes then we are devoid of faith.

Such people have made the Church a laughing stock in the eyes of a watching world, as reflected in a comedienne’s quip that: “TV evangelists tell us they do not favour one denomination over another but it appears to me that, given the choice, they much prefer 10s and 20s!”

The Apostle Paul refuses to be lobbied by either party and expresses that he has learned that in whatever state he finds himself he resolves to be content (Philippians 4:11).

The Bible does not say that money is the root of all evil, but the love of it.

John D Rockerfeller, one of the world’s wealthiest men at the time, was asked how much more money he would need to make him happy.

His reply was, “Just a little bit more.” It is said that when Columbus reached the New World his first words to the native population, as he showed

them some gold pieces, were, “Do you have any of this here?”

In Genesis we read that when Eve took the forbidden fruit she did so subsequent to Satan’s insinuation that God was trying to keep her from something that would add to her sense of satisfaction.

Ironically, it was shortly after that that she and Adam discovered that they were naked – the same revelation that God brought to Laodicea when, in the last book of the Bible, that church considered itself to be wealthy and in need of nothing.

Money is neutral and is neither good nor bad.

What imbues it with power is the way that it is used and the motive with which it is employed.

For example, God does not recognise the amount that we give but the amount that we have left after we have given. The account of the Pharisees and their philanthropy compared to the widow and her mite makes that abundantly clear.

Spending money as a symbol of status is a vacuous and empty way to live or, as the economist Tim Jackson puts it, “Why do people spend money they have not got to buy things they do not need in order to impress people they do not like?”

Using our resources in a biblical way to help those in need and advance the kingdom of God clearly gives the resources that we possess a positive power.

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Faith and finance We need a new relationship with money not just a ‘keep calm and carry on’ attitude, writes Mark Ryan There is continual scaremongering when it comes to money. Our news bulletins rarely contain any good news about finance, but simply describing the darkness does not shed any light, nor does it help anyone.

What we need is clear and new thinking that will be an example to others who simply feel that the financial situation of the country is beyond them.

A ‘keep calm and carry on’ attitude won’t work when it comes to money.

As Christians, we need to present an alternative. We must be the storehouse of help and wisdom for others to draw upon. But if the Church is to fulfil such a role then we as believers need a new relationship with money.

Times have changed We think our economies have hit a blip – but they haven’t!

We think that if we are careful then things will go back to how they were – but they won’t! We think that we are part of a cycle and things will go back to normal again – not a chance! Things have changed – for good!

There has been a fundamental shift in economics that we need to adjust to. It’s not simply that something really bad happened when the banks crashed, and now we can learn a few lessons and get back on track. It is rather that a whole system proved to be wrong, far from what the Bible instructs, and therefore

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we should not try to make that which is broken work again. We need to think about what we do in a fresh biblical way. This will seem odd at first and, in some ways, hard. But it will bring a fresh liberty that will make us as Christians the leaders of society.

The role of money Cash doesn’t come to give you comfort but to help enable you to do what you’re called to do.

We don’t get lots of money so we can live how we want, nor do we get it to make us comfortable.

The role of money is to enable us to do what God has purposed for his kingdom.

We are to wrap our purpose around our money, considering if we are in the right place for God, not just doing what everyone else does because it’s expected.

Students can go to university with all the financial implications that this brings, but they need to do so knowing it’s the right move for them. People can buy houses in a location because that’s where they’d like to live, but they need to know that this is where God has called them.

More than at any other time in history we need kingdom people on assignments for the King. Give money, save it and spend it – but do it all with God’s purposes in mind.

On the subject of money, the Bible tells us to provide for our loved ones (1 Timothy 5:8), it instructs us to save

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‘Eye-opening’ first year of helping people face reality ‘The good news – and the Church has always been about good news – is that no matter how bad people think their situation is, we can help’ Above Leeds CAP manager Malcolm Lamb

Many of the CAP centres are seeing lives turned around.

Bridge Street Church in Leeds is celebrating its first year of rescuing people from personal debt.

Last year, as the economic downturn continued to dampen spirits in the community, members of Bridge Street reached out to those in need.

One of those was single dad John, who found himself struggling after being made redundant and having to cope with mounting debt.

“I wasn’t eating properly, I wasn’t sleeping and I wasn’t thinking straight with the constant phone calls and letters arriving,” he says.

“I really didn’t think anyone could help, but when CAP got involved they took all the pressure away.”

Another client, Jackie, adds, “Before I got help, I was fright-

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ened of opening the post. I suffered from anxiety and I couldn’t sleep. Life was so stressful and I found it a real struggle to provide for my children.

“CAP gave me a simple budget that meant I always had enough for food and living essentials each week. All I had to do was pay an agreed amount into my account. “ Since C A P came and helped me, life has been much easier. The stress has been lifted. I am less anxious and am sleeping better. I now feel confident enough to open the post and answer the phone.”

Centre manager Malcolm Lamb said it had been ‘eyeopening’ to see how debt affects people. “People’s problems

most commonly begin with at least one unexpected change in circumstances, like the loss of a job or a death in the family,” he says.

“If someone is on a low income to start with, it can take very little to put them into the red.

“We’ve also seen that debt problems don’t just affect the bank balance. Constant demands coupled with feelings of failure mean that more than a third of those who call us say they are considering suicide as a way out.

“The good news – and the Church has always been about good news – is that no matter how bad people think their situation is, we can help.”

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lives in ways that only he can. The The CAP centre at Acorn Community centre is well known amongst local Church, Whitley Bay, has seen more agencies who refer clients to us on a than 50 people counselled since it regular basis, knowing that the support opened in 2010. hope offered by CAP is just what Manager Julia Wilthew says, “A and they need. number of our clients have made a “There is no doubt that running commitment to Christ and some are a centre is a great model through involved in church life. h the Church really can impact “Each client has heard and expe- whic the community at a practical level and rienced something of God’s love and with the gospel.” many have seen Jesus impact their

‘There is no doubt that running a centre is a great model through which the Church really can impact the community’

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Faith and finance It’s time to nail our colours to the mast when giving, writes John Lacy

God requires you yield to him, not money At the battle of Camperdown – a naval engagement that was fought between English and Dutch ships in 1797 – the English fleet was led by The Venerable, the flagship of Admiral Adam Duncan.

The battle initially did not go well for the English when the main mast of Duncan’s vessel was struck and the blue squadron standard was brought down. Unless the ship’s colours could be raised, they would have had to surrender.

Enter Jack Crawford, the brave hero who climbed the broken mast under fire and nailed the colours to the mast.

This action was pivotal in Duncan’s forces fighting on to win the battle, and was the beginning of the era in which Britannia well and truly ruled the waves.

One of the areas where we need to nail our colours to the mast is in our heart attitude of giving to God and to others.

We were all raised with an attitude to money that determines how we see it, whether we like spending it or will give liberally.

We can either have a lack mentality, evident if you speak negatively about giving, slate people who are better off than

‘If you are a slave to money you will be sad when you spend it, intent on getting more of it and insulted when people ask you to give it’

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you are and always assume that people want something from you.

Or, we have an accumulative mentality, evident by hoarding wealth and not taking part in God’s reciprocal standard of giving and receiving. People who accumulate will determine how well things are going in their life in direct proportion to how much they have financially.

Children are born naturally selfish. In the infant years everything revolves around them!

But as they grow, they tackle the less natural skills of sharing and giving. If you have ever seen two children fighting over a toy in the nursery you will know what I mean – you had better stand clear!

We can so easily carry over our pre-programmed attitudes and childlike selfishness into our kingdom lives. The reason that such a proportion of Christ’s teaching covers giving, generosity and stewardship is because God knows that money is an issue of the heart and of full surrender to him. It is a ‘heart grabber’ or ‘throat squeezer’ which can stifle your spiritual development if not yielded to the Father.

The Bible tells us that God requires you to yield to him, not money. As long as he is in competition with a poor attitude to money and giving, he knows he has not got your all.

John Calvin put it this way: “Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost

his authority.” As we firstly act out of obedience in giving to the Church and to others, we find the joy of giving takes root within us. This area of dominion in our life is given to God and we raise a standard over our lives that brings freedom and release.

How true this is – money can either be our master, or our slave. If you are a slave to money you will be sad when you spend it, intent on getting more of it and insulted when people ask you to give it! If money is your slave then you will be happy to spend it, intent on getting rid of some of it and inspired when people ask you to give it because you know it has no dominion over you!

It is often said that a goldfish has a five second memory. I have, as yet, been unable to test this theory, but it does remind me of how forgetful we are.

God has poured his grace and provision into our lives, firstly through the inexplicable gift of salvation and then everything that he entrusts us to be wise stewards over. When we give to God and others, let us not operate in goldfish mode, but remember his favour, give joyfully and realise the full potential of the gift of giving.

So perhaps take a moment to assess your heart. What is your attitude to giving? What colours are nailed to the mast in your life? The flow of a godly economy depends upon you and I taking our place within it and being part of God’s plan.

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Mirror, mirror on the wall… it’s time for a spiritual check-up, says Liz McMeekin

What does your reflection say about you?

In my house there are many mirrors. I have pretty ones on the wall, a couple that are at head-height so that I can just see my face and I have a long mirror so that I can see my whole reflection.

I also have a little mirror in my handbag for checking makeup or for using when I need to take an eyelash out! This one is great for quick touch-ups on the move but it doesn’t show me much and isn’t very good if I need to see how my whole outfit looks, or for noticing if my skirt is tucked into my tights. For this, I need a full sized mirror.

James 1:23-25 compares looking into a mirror with hearing God’s Word. He tells us that we need to look into the spiritual mirror of the Word of God and act on what we see. If we don’t, it is like walking away from a natural mirror and immediately forgetting what we look like!

Look into the mirror… what do you see? Are you just glancing into it because you are happy with the way you look or afraid of what you might see? Do you just do spot checks in a tiny mirror? How long is it since you took a long hard look at yourself in a full sized mirror to see what needs to change?

Our spiritual mirror is the Bible and we need to look intently into it and understand the context and how it applies to us.

Above Liz McMeekin says it’s time we had a good look in the mirror for a spiritual check-up

There is some value in a little mirror for quick touch-ups, such as reading a daily devotional, but this is not enough on its own.

We need personal revelation to hear what God is saying to us as individuals.

There are many other types of mirrors around us in the form of people, media and literature, giving us advice about who we are and how we should be.

Some show us only part of the picture or tell us only what we want to hear.

What mirror are we looking into? What do we see when we look into that mirror? What do we do about what we see in the mirror? Do we even bother looking into a mirror at all and leave it to chance that we are OK? When you look into God’s mirror you should see: Your reflection What condition are you in?

What are you doing to maintain your body and keep it in good working order? What needs to change there? Do you need to get fit? Do you need to eat more healthily? Do you need to take action about some health matters?

Your expression What does this indicate? What emotions are you experiencing? What is causing you to have these emotions? What is God showing you about your

thought life and what needs to change there? The Apostle Paul urges us to be transformed by the renewing of our minds and he also tells us to think on things that are good and lovely and pure and admirable. Our thought life dictates our emotions so we need to monitor what we think about.

Your surroundings What or who is around you?

What does it indicate about your life? What needs to change there? Remember, our treasures reveal our heart! I remember a television programme that went into well known people’s homes and we had to guess who lived there by the things that were in the house. What would people surmise by looking around your home?

We must spend time regularly looking into the full sized spiritual mirror of the Word of God to see our complete true reflection and, most importantly, do something about what is revealed there! Thankfully, God has given us his Holy Spirit to guide us through the process and give us the strength to do it.

What an awesome God we have! Now, where is that mirror?

• Liz leads the Elim Church in Burntwood alongside her husband, Sandie.

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Lynda Heron was unceremoniously thrown out of church the first time she turned up – but then, she did walk to the front and kiss the preacher! Today she’s married to one…

What was I thinking going to a church dressed like that?

Above Lynda Heron was a kissagram when she was invited to church as a surprise for the minister Opposite page Clockwise from top: Lynda speaking at an Aspire conference; Lynda and Jason on their wedding day with Lynda’s son Callum in 1990; Lynda and Jason today; Lynda with her team during her years as a travel agent; Chris Tarrant, who Lynda surprised on TV

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As a pastor’s wife, Lynda Heron understands more than most the expectations placed on her.

Now a respected member of Elim and the wider community, she plays a big part in the Movement’s women’s ministry, Aspire.

But life was once very different for the mum-of-three.

Lynda, who leads Northampton Elim Church alongside her husband, Jason, will never forget her first experience of church, when she surprised the preacher – with a kiss.

“People say to me, ‘You’re the one who kissed the preacher!’ I answer, ‘Yes, and I’m still kissing a preacher today because now I’m married to one!’” she laughs.

At 21, Lynda was the manager of a travel agency in her hometown of Blackpool. But she also worked part time in the pubs and clubs as a ‘kissagram’.

Lynda had ‘performed’ in a variety of settings, including a TV appearance when she surprised Chris Tarrant and a birthday party when she kissed Russell Grant. But perhaps her

most unusual request was when a church youth group hired her for their pastor’s birthday surprise.

Dressed for the job, she sneaked in through the back door and got ready to surprise her client who was preaching away on stage. Then her moment came.

“I smiled and had my bright red lipstick on and was ready to give him a kiss,” she says. “As I got closer I whipped off my coat revealing my kissagram outfit and I planted this big red kiss on his face. He was horrified!

“Then it went pitch black and I was hustled all the way to the back of the stage and out of the door with the words, ‘Your kind are not welcome here.’”

Lying in the gutter on a dark street, those words resonated in Lynda’s head – and deep into her soul.

“As I looked down at my outfit, I realised that I agreed with what they’d told me. What was I thinking going to a church dressed like that?” But Lynda dusted herself off and put her bad experience to one side.

Even as her career took off her personal life was spiralling out of control. At 23 she was a divorced single mum and a heavy user of recreational drugs.

Then one day, a new boyfriend, Jason, invited her to church. “Every day he talked about this guy Jesus and how he loved me. Finally I snapped and agreed to go to church, as long as he never talked about this Jesus again.”

Lynda dressed defiantly, determined to shock the church members. But she got more than she bargained for when she entered Elim’s Blackpool Christian Centre.

“I clonked down the aisle in my high heels with Jason pulling me forward,” she says. “But no one was looking at me. They were all worshipping God. “ We got there and we walked through the door and they’d had weeks of revival so the church was packed. There were only two seats left right at the very front. We sat down and the man, Pastor Jim Thompson, started to talk – and it was about me, about how I felt inside and

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Described by some as a modern day abolitionist, Ben Cooley, CEO of Hope for Justice, is on a mission to end human trafficking.

Mark Pugh met him

I didn’t realise slavery still existed!

MP: What is meant by the term ‘human trafficking’?

BC: It’s the recruiting, transportation or harbouring of a person by coercion or deception or because of a person’s position of vulnerability for the purposes of exploitation. That includes sexual exploitation, labour exploitation and domestic servitude.

MP: So it’s slavery?

BC: Yes it’s slavery!

MP: Haven’t we just celebrated 200 years since the abolition of slavery? How can it still exist today?

BC: If you had asked me five years ago if slavery existed I would have answered that it did prior to the great victory of William Wilberforce’s campaign.

But I’ve discovered that it’s crept back in through forced labour, as opportunistic individuals try to make bigger profits with lower costs.

It’s crept in through the sexualisation of society which means there is greater demand than ever for sexual services, creating a market for a greater supply of victims which includes those trafficked for sexual exploitation.

This all means there are more slaves around the globe right now than at any other point in history. Official statistics

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say there are over 27 million people across the world trapped in slavery, including 1.2 million children who are trafficked each year for exploitation – that’s two children every minute. It’s a massive epidemic.

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Opposite page Ben Cooley, campaigning to end human trafficking here in the UK

MP: Those statistics are horrific – how is such a problem so hidden? How can this be going on around us and yet we don’t notice?

BC: It is far more hidden than it was in Wilberforce’s day. In fact, you may come across someone who has been trafficked without even knowing. Trafficking victims rarely self disclose.

We have trained a number of our ‘Act for Justice’ groups to spot the subtle signs of trafficking and what many have discovered is that their churches are already in contact with people who have been trafficked, in their work among the homeless, the weak, poor and marginalised.

I can think of a guy who would turn up to a church’s food programme in order to feed himself – it became apparent that the reason for this was that he was trafficked into the country for the purposes of forced labour and his trafficker wasn’t feeding him.

MP: If he could choose to walk to a church feeding programme how is he

enslaved? Wouldn’t he have been locked away or under constant watch?

BC: That is what many would think – but why keep someone captive in a room when you can keep them captive in their mind?

They are often so emotionally manipulated that they fear leaving. The traffickers break them down to such a degree and then confidently let them visit places like the church food bank, knowing that the threats they have made over their lives and their families are so severe that they always come back.

Also, the traffickers will often withhold their documents so that they cannot leave or find work elsewhere. So the groups that have been trained to spot these signs are able to identify and work with us to respond appropriately.

MP: Ben, you’re talking about this like it’s an issue here in the UK. BC: The first girl we ever rescued was a white British 14 year old sold into the European sex trade. Is it a British problem?

Yes it is, and it happens across the UK. The Home Office has said in 2003 there are around 4,000 sexually exploited people in our country at any one time and in 2005 Barnardo’s estimates that in London alone, there

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I thank God for my career Premiership footballer Fabrice Muamba believes God spared his life after a heart attack during a game

Devout Christian Fabrice Muamba has thanked God for his footballing career as he pulled the curtain down on his playing days.

The Bolton star, who came back from the dead after the nation prayed for him when he collapsed for 78 minutes in a game earlier this year, has been told by doctors that he can never play professionally again.

He said, “I have remained utterly positive in the belief I could one day resume my playing career. But the news was obviously not what I had hoped it would be and I am now announcing my retire-

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‘On the morning of the game I prayed with my father and asked God to protect me – and he didn’t let me down’ Above Fabrice Muamba waves farewell to fans

ment. Football has been my life. I count myself very lucky to have been able to play at the highest level.

“While the news is devastating, I have much to be thankful for. I thank God that I am alive and I pay tribute once again to the members of the medical team who never gave up on me. I would also like to thank everyone who has supported me throughout my career, and the Bolton fans. I am blessed to have the support of my family and friends at this time.”

Muamba, 24, attends Audacious City Church in Manchester and regularly updates

his followers on Twitter with Bible verses and encouraging Christian messages.

He has become a worldwide celebrity after his ‘resurrection’ and has regularly credited God for his miracle recovery.

He said, “I am walking proof of the power of prayer. For 78 minutes I was dead and even if I lived I was expected to have suffered brain damage.

“But I’m very much alive and sitting here talking now. Someone up there was watching over me. On the morning of the game I prayed with my father and asked God to protect me – and he didn’t let me down.”

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SCHEME LAUNCH Preparing for a future after your own PLUS ‘I FIRST MET MY DAD WHEN I WAS 60!’

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STAYING PURE IN A SEX CHARGED WORLD

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Kissagram girl who kissed a preacher, then married one!

STAMPING OUT SLAVERY IN THE UK

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