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Debt-free Living

"No one who is financially bound can be spiritually free."

Reviewed by Jerry Lastine, director of trust services and stewardship coordinator, Columbia Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Columbia, Maryland.

"How we handle money reveals where we are spiritually," declares this author. Founder and director of Christian Financial Concepts, Gainesville, Georgia, Burkett shares the experiences of couples heavily in debt and how they were able to climb out of debt.

With 80 percent of divorced couples between the ages of 20 and 30 listing financial problems as the primary reason for their divorces, the matter of finances is one the church needs to listen to. Premarital counseling must cover financial planning. Pastors need to know bankruptcy laws and be able to give practical suggestions and workable solutions to financial stresses.

I found this to be an informative volume and the author's philosophy biblically based. Burkett believes that "no one who is financially bound can be spiritually free." To help people establish financial discipline he provides seminars and audio-video materials for teaching in churches.

Reviewed by Jerry Lastine, director of trust services and stewardship coordinator, Columbia Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Columbia, Maryland.

March 1991

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