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December 11th, 2008 by Shane Kenny | Filed under Church.At Freedom Church our pastor is always casting the vision of being a church that has a huge impact on the community around it. In our case this community is a little suburb of Atlanta called Acworth. But why stop there? Can one church in one community have an affect on the whole country? Why not!
A few weeks ago we did a series called Debt Free Acworth. Today I read that in the last quarter the consumer debt level in the United States fell by 0.8%. Big deal right? When you consider that this has never happened in the 50 years since they started tracking consumer debt I would say it is a HUGE DEAL!
Can Freedom Church take credit? Not all of it. I am sure Dave Ramsey will need to take more than his fair share of the credit as well. But, it is fun to think that one church in one community could have such a profound affect on the whole nation.
My hypothesis on this is that nobody can truly take credit for it. I don’t think consumers (in general) have changed their tune at all (certainly not enough to affect nearly a 1% drop). I think the credit for this falls almost entirely on the fact that many easy loans have dried up making the drop in consumer debt involuntary.
Not to slight what Freedom or Dave Ramsey are doing. I just think this is much much bigger than them.