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		<title>Abundance Thinking</title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I often dream about our Brazil churches sending out overseas missionaries. I don&#8217;t see this happening real soon, but dreams turn to words, and words turn to reality. Scarcity Thinking suggests that if we used our limited resources on a faraway project like sending a missionary couple to Mozambique, this will take away from church planting [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>I often dream about our Brazil churches sending out overseas missionaries. I don&#8217;t see this happening real soon, but dreams turn to words, and words turn to reality.</p>
<p><u><strong>Scarcity Thinking</strong></u> suggests that if we used our limited resources on a faraway project like sending a missionary couple to Mozambique, this will take away from church planting in Brazil.</p>
<p><strong><u>Abundance Thinking,</u> </strong>on the other hand, believes that if a disadvantaged neighborhood is pooling collections to help a missionary to an even poorer country, this will spur that church on to do even more in their own neighborhoods. Can you imagine someone growing up in a high-risk Marabá neighborhood sending Facebook or Youtube updates back to their on-fire Christians friends and family.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.success.com/article/john-c-maxwell-6-tips-to-develop-and-model-an-abundance-mindset" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CLICK HERE to learn about Scarcity Thinking and Abundance Thinking</a></p>
<p><sup>Luke 6:38<em> </em></sup><em>&#8220;Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”</em></p>
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