Why The Hundredfold Project?

This will help to clarify and strengthen what I write, whom my intended audience is, and wht type of outlet it is for me in my thoughts.

It is also a way for me to start to simplify things that are going on in my life by consolidating or pruning things that don’t fit.

I think, for the most part, people — maybe it’s just Americans, I don’t know — have a hunger for more: more room, more RAM on the ipod, more money, more stuff, and sometimes more time, more relationships, more love, more significance.

That would be natural. Yes, some have found a way to live a life of minimalism, and I think that’s the path to sanity. But regardless, the compulsion at least from the outside world (think advertising agencies) and the inside world (comparison to others and selfishness) drives us to more.

And that’s what Jesus is tackling in that parable of the rich young ruler where He says that those who follow him will receive much more than they give up to do so. Mark calls out “a hundredfold”…and also says there will be “persecution” as a bonus.

So that’s why I picked this particular parable found in three of the four books of the Gospel. One, it appeals to utter magnitude of what God has in store when we trust him, a clear multiplier. But it also inserts, which the other two verses don’t, that there will be persecutions.

That distinction, I believe, separates the Hundredfold Project from a purely “wealth and health”, God is a genie, perspective. It’s so much more real.

But I think the world lives in a scarcity mode. Some of it is real scarcity and poverty of resources. Some of it is a poverty of healthy relationship and fullness of their soul. All of it comes from not living their life “hundredfold.”

I am writing this to explore how the notion of dedicating your entire life, Heart, Mind, Strength, and Soul — can be turned around by living through a set of principles and mindsets to remove scarcity and create abundance.

So some of the questions I seek to answer and thoughts are around, “How do I replcate the scarcity of (x) — time, money, relationships, hope, joy

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This will help to clarify and strengthen what I write, whom my intended audience is, and wht type of outlet it is for me in my thoughts.

It is also a way for me to start to simplify things that are going on in my life by consolidating or pruning things that don’t fit.

I think, for the most part, people — maybe it’s just Americans, I don’t know — have a hunger for more: more room, more RAM on the ipod, more money, more stuff, and sometimes more time, more relationships, more love, more significance.

That would be natural. Yes, some have found a way to live a life of minimalism, and I think that’s the path to sanity. But regardless, the compulsion at least from the outside world (think advertising agencies) and the inside world (comparison to others and selfishness) drives us to more.

And that’s what Jesus is tackling in that parable of the rich young ruler where He says that those who follow him will receive much more than they give up to do so. Mark calls out “a hundredfold”…and also says there will be “persecution” as a bonus.

So that’s why I picked this particular parable found in three of the four books of the Gospel. One, it appeals to utter magnitude of what God has in store when we trust him, a clear multiplier. But it also inserts, which the other two verses don’t, that there will be persecutions.

That distinction, I believe, separates the Hundredfold Project from a purely “wealth and health”, God is a genie, perspective. It’s so much more real.

But I think the world lives in a scarcity mode. Some of it is real scarcity and poverty of resources. Some of it is a poverty of healthy relationship and fullness of their soul. All of it comes from not living their life “hundredfold.”

I am writing this to explore how the notion of dedicating your entire life, Heart, Mind, Strength, and Soul — can be turned around by living through a set of principles and mindsets to remove scarcity and create abundance.

So some of the questions I seek to answer and thoughts are around, “How do I replcate the scarcity of (x) — time, money, relationships, hope, joy

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