2 Corinthians 9

I remember a game we played in high school in our ecnomics class.  It was a computer simulated "run your own company" game.  Each team started out with the same scenerio and same amount of money and had a choice of how to spend the money.  Either on R&D, reinvestment in the company (machines/upkeep,payroll), marketing etc.  My team decided to take all of our money in the first round and invest in R&D and the company.  Other teams took only small portions of their money, spent some in marketing and saved some assuming that there would a be a period where their costs exceed their profits.  We ran a simulation each week and redistributed our profits etc.

After the first week, our team was untouchable.  Because we invested fully in ourselves, we had the best product to sell and then, of course, the highest profits.  I don't know how much that really plays into the real corporate world, but it fits right in with Paul's words in chapter 9.  You reap what you sow.  If you invest in the good of people and in the God of people, you will see rewards.  You also need to invest in yourself.  Understand this "product" that we should be selling.  The few of us that are blogging and those others that are reading have found this as our personal investment.

I agree that we should keep on trucking with this blog and try and grab a few more people to help out.  What book do we want to blog next?  Personally, I like blogging the books and not the lectionary as it leaves out a lot.  And for someone like me who has never read through this whole thing, I want to dive into the dull parts as much as the good stuff.