Latinpreneurs- Negocios Digitales para Cristianos |Digital Business for Christians
You took a vow of poverty you never signed (Ep. 8)
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The money guilt you feel as a Christian woman did not start in you. It is a vow of poverty designed for the cloistered nun that got transferred quietly to every Latina believer over five centuries. And it is costing you, your mother, and your grandmother more than any of you know. This is the biblical theology of money episode for the Christian woman whose hand shakes when she writes the price. You filled out the Evidence File last week. You read it every morning. The voice that said who do you think you are got quieter. You started believing, for the first time in maybe years, that what you have is real and worth charging for. And then you wrote down the price. And your hand shook. Not the same voice this time. A different one. Older. Heavier. The one that says wanting money is the opposite of being faithful. The one that says a real Christian woman serves out of love, not for pay. The one that says if God wants you to have it, He will provide, you do not have to ask. I want to tell you something that took me a long time to figure out. For the first ten years of my business in China, I undercharged. Not by a little. By a lot. I would do a project that should have cost a client between fifteen and twenty thousand dollars. Source the supplier. Visit the factories. Negotiate. Run quality control. Manage the shipping. The whole thing. I would charge four. Sometimes three. I told myself I was being a good Christian. I told myself I was being a good steward. I told myself I was building relationships and serving people. But underneath all of that, there was something else. Every time I had to put a number in an email, my hands got cold. I would write the price. Erase it. Write it again, lower. Send it before I could change my mind. That voice did not start with me. I grew up Catholic. So did most of us. So did most of our mothers and our grandmothers and the women who poured into us. And in the Catholic tradition that shaped Latin America for five hundred years, there is a beautiful, deeply held value of poverty as holiness. The priest takes a vow of poverty. The nun takes a vow of poverty. The saint who gives everything away is the one we put on the wall. Francis of Assisi. Mother Teresa. That is not a small thing. That is a real and beautiful piece of Christian history. I respect it. But here is what happened over time. The vow of poverty was meant for a specific kind of vocation, a specific kind of calling, that involves a specific kind of giving up. And somewhere along the way, the vow that belonged to the cloistered nun and the missionary priest got transferred, quietly, to everyone. To your abuela who felt guilty saving for retirement. To your mom who never charged what she was worth for the alterations she did out of her kitchen. To you the first time you tried to charge a friend for something you knew was worth more than what you asked for. We inherited a vow we never took. And then it got reinforced by one misquoted verse. Money is the root of all evil. That is not what the verse says. First Timothy six ten says the LOVE of money is a root of all kinds of evil. The love. The thing your heart bows down to. Not the money. Not the having. Not the earning. The loving. One word changes everything. In this episode I walk you through the actual biblical theology of money. First Timothy six. Luke eight, where the women funded the ministry of Jesus out of their own resources. Acts eighteen, where Paul made tents to fund his apostolic calling. The verses that the inherited script never let you read all the way through. The free exercise for this episode is The Money Beliefs Mirror. One page. Two columns. In the left column twelve money beliefs that almost every believer I have coached carries. Some you heard from your mother. Some you heard from a pulpit. Some you have been saying to yourself in your own head for so long you forgot they are not in the Bible.
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