Jesus asked a rich man to give everything away, but what does that mean for us? During Lent, Jerry Sumney will help us explore what the Bible really says about using our resources in ways that please God, without feeling burdened. Come join the conversation as we seek a balanced, faith-filled approach to our possessions. When a wealthy person asks Jesus what he must do to inherit eternal life, Jesus responds with the demand that he sell all that he has and give it to people who are poor. When we hear that radical demand, we often find reasons to say it does not apply to ourselves. Over time, we have come up with all kinds of excuses to support that idea. In this study, we will look carefully at this text and at what the New Testament says more broadly about how Christians can think about their financial means and their relationship to them. We will explore the multiple ways that people use their wealth in ways that Jesus and the rest of the New Testament approves of as pleasing to God. We will try to develop a clearer idea of how to understand our relationship to our possessions that does not make us ignore or despair when we hear Jesus’s word to the rich man.