As we kick off a new year, we’re diving into a topic that impacts every family: money. Teaching our kids to steward money and resources well can feel stressful, overwhelming, or even divisive—but it doesn’t have to be. A New Year reset is the perfect opportunity to rethink how our families handle finances, cultivate generosity, and live with joy and purpose.
In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Shane Enete, author of Whole Heart Finances: A Jesus-Centered Guide to Managing Your Money with Joy. Shane shares practical wisdom and biblical insight on how faith, family, and finances intersect in everyday life, offering encouragement for parents who want to raise generous, joyful stewards.
Together, we explore what it means to manage money with a whole heart, how to teach children biblical stewardship, and practical steps families can take to align their finances with their faith. Join us as we discover how Jesus-centered money habits can bring freedom, joy, and purpose to your family finances.
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Episode 28: Summary & Transcript
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Episode Summary
In this Upside Down Parenting podcast episode, Dr. Shane Enete discusses his “whole heart finances” approach to money management and teaching children financial stewardship. Dr. Enete emphasizes that bringing Jesus into our financial lives, rather than separating faith from finances, is key to finding joy with money. He observes that younger generations view money differently due to its increasingly digital nature, making it feel more abstract and gamified, while social media creates pressure for higher material standards.
For teaching children, Dr. Enete recommends using Bible stories about money and possessions, noting that money is the second most discussed topic in the Bible with over 2,200 verses. Practically, he suggests implementing spending, giving, and saving decisions with allowances, family giving circles, and understanding children’s money personalities to tailor approaches. Dr. Enete stresses the importance of parental modeling, stating that children are “genius inspectors” who can detect integrity. He concludes with an “imprinting exercise” based on Romans, designed to help families view new money through their identity in Christ rather than claiming it as purely their own.
Episode Transcript
Dr. Matt Jones (00:00):
Well, welcome back to the Upside Down Parenting podcast. I’m your host, Matt Jones. As we kick off a new year, we’re diving into a topic that affects every family: money. Teaching our kids to steward money and resources well can feel stressful, overwhelming, and even divisive. But it doesn’t have to be. Resources, money can be a blessing in a form of connection within your family. So a new year reset is a perfect time to rethink how we as families handle finances, cultivate generosity, and live with joy and purpose.
We are thrilled to have Dr. Shane Enete joining us today. Shane is the author of Whole Heart Finances: A Jesus-Centered Guide to Managing Your Money with Joy, and I’m putting it up on the screen for those who are watching, where he explores how our finances intersect with faith, family, and rhythms of daily life. He brings practical wisdom, biblical insight, and encouragement for parents who want to teach their kids what it looks like to steward their resources well while cultivating joy and generosity.
In this episode, we’ll explore what it looks like to manage money with a whole heart, how to teach children about stewardship, and practical steps families can take to align their finances with their faith. Let’s jump in and discover how to bring joy and faith to your family finances. Welcome, Dr. Shane today. Thank you for joining us. Hello, Janel.
Janel Greig (01:29):
Hey, Matt.
Dr. Shane Enete (1:31):
Yeah, thanks for having me.
Dr. Matt Jones (01:32):
Yeah, it’s great to have you. We’re super excited about your time. Thank you for the work that you put into the book, Whole Heart Finances. Both Janel and I enjoyed reading it, and I do find it interesting that we can find joy with family finances. What do you think is kind of key to that joy?
Dr. Shane Enete (01:52):
Well, I’d say the opposite. If we want to be anxious, if we want to have zero enjoyment of our financial lives, we should leave Jesus out of it. We should separate our financial lives and our faith lives. That’s going to be a guaranteed way. Everything’s going to be hard. We were never meant to kind of bear full financial responsibility. So it’s a crushing weight. If we try and do what’s very natural to do, which is to say, Jesus, you deal with my soul and my kind of spiritual life, but I got this with money, I bear full responsibility. You don’t really like money, so I have to be on my own here.
And so to approach something that’s so close to our hearts, money is so close to our hearts. It’s how we feel safe. It’s how we feel like we have some measure of control over all the threats in the world. If we bring that to Jesus, all the anxieties around that, then there’s an intimacy and there’s a worship, and there are a lot of promises that we can become much more whole and much more devoted and receive his grace in much larger measure. And so that’s the pathway towards more joy with money.
Dr. Matt Jones (3:01):
That’s great. Thank you.
Janel Greig (03:03):
Yeah, I really enjoyed your book Shane, and I think we’re the Upside Down Parenting podcast and we’re talking about how to parent in the upside down kingdom, and your book talks about the whole heart perspective and what you just shared is absolutely upside down to what society or the worldly perspective. And so just such great content. Excited to have our listeners here, some of your input today.
But to jump off, could you share with our listeners, let us know how as you engage with younger generations, have you noticed that they view and interact with money differently compared to older generations so that the Alphas and the Gen Zs, how does that look different than the older generations?
Dr. Shane Enete (03:52):
Yeah, and it’s fun because I’ve been able to be immersed in Gen Z through my college students, and then I’m immersed in Gen Alpha with my two kids. And so I’m seeing that generation up and close. The number one thing that’s changed since we were kids is that money is just no longer physical, and when you can’t see it, it becomes different. It becomes more of an abstraction, something that you think about and not actually something that’s real.
And so over time, what I’m seeing as I teach about money is, it doesn’t feel relevant because it’s just kind of one big idea. And so my wife and I actually had a bit of, we have this existential struggle because my wife wants to keep all of the money that our kids manage physical, so they see it.
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And then I’m like, well, that’s just not practical. We can’t do anything. There are so many places you can’t even do anything with physical money. And so I’m like, let’s get them on the system just so they can learn it and kind of approach it better. And so we have that kind of, and it’s a gamification of money. So Gen Z and Alpha are seeing it more as a game that they’re playing, and so it’s less real. And so it desensitizes them.
And with everything moving towards subscription models, you don’t really know what the full price is of anything anymore. And so even just a pair of shoes, they have all these buy now pay later programs, and they’re really natural for Gen Zers to just say, oh, that’s a $3 shoe, but it’s a $3 per week shoe, and they don’t have zero idea how much that shoe actually costs.
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And then they’re requiring a higher standard of material living because social media is showing so many different variations of what their lives should look like when they’re projecting it out into the internet sphere. And so nowadays, when I was a kid, it was like you got one shoe and you used it, and then the next year you got a new shoe. And for me as Reebok where you pump them up and it was just amazing. And for others it could have been in the Air Jordans or Nike.
But here now kids are seeing that, oh no, I’m meant to have a different shoe every day because I need to be posting about this and how my fit needs to be. I need to have the drip going. And so I try and embarrass all my students by trying to use their terms very inappropriately in a cringe-worthy way.
Janel Greig (06:29):
I’m impressed.
Dr. Shane Enete (06:30):
I get them serious rage bait by using.
Dr. Matt Jones (06:32):
He’s dropping them like crazy there, Janel.
Dr. Shane Enete (06:35):
Man. Oh man. But yeah, so I’m seeing that. And then the last thing I’ll mention is, investing is such an interesting thing. So when I was in junior high, high school, I got into stock investing at an early age, and there was a huge barrier where you couldn’t buy a stock unless you bought a hundred shares. And if you didn’t buy a hundred shares through a physical broker like a person that you had to talk to, then you encountered a 5/16 commission. So you lost a third of your money the moment you wanted to buy just one share.
And so I actually became kind of like I spoke at different seminars about how to get around that 5/16 commission, but what it did do is, there were just so many boundaries and stocks were quoted in fractions. It was whole number with fraction. So there’s all this berry century, and then when you did buy something, you’d want to own it for years because you want to recoup that loss. But nowadays you just open up an account for free, you buy basically anything for free and everything’s going up and down. And so as that happens with crypto, with NFT, then investing is no longer investing, it’s actually entertainment. And that’s a totally different mind shift for a young person.
Dr. Matt Jones (08:00):
That’s really insightful. I was just curious, and Janel, I hope I’m not stealing your question here, but you talk about having a whole heart perspective when it comes to finances, and I’m just curious if you could develop that a little bit more, but then how do you teach that to your kids?
Janel Greig (08:19):
Yeah.
Dr. Shane Enete (08:22):
So your question is developing a whole heart?
Dr. Matt Jones (08:25):
Develop the idea of what that whole whole heart perspective is a little bit and how we might teach that to our children.
Dr. Shane Enete (08:32):
I know. So there’s different approaches and it definitely depends, your approach, on the age of the child. And so my children right now are 10 and 9. And so I started a project in response to that question called the Money Storybook Bible podcast. And so I have 12 episodes for Old Testament, 12 for New. And what I realized was probably the best way to form someone in their view of money, child or adult is to just tell Bible stories that involve money possessions and then just let the morals and the lesson just kind of unfold.
And so in these, so for me, whether they’re five or whether they’re 15 or 25, just tell some of the stories and then let them respond. Let the Holy Spirit do some deep work that you couldn’t do otherwise. And I kind of helped identify stories around spending around debt, around giving around work.
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And so for example, it’s just wild. If you look at Abraham and Lot and you have, they hear this senior person and his nephew and he’s like, lot, I want you to choose where to go. And that’s just an incredible moment in history that’s recorded of generosity and of showing God who God is. And so just to flesh out what that actually meant and then to say, what do you think about that?
And to teach that way or to have, just bring out King Solomon, put him on display and just show his words, all of wealth is meaningless and I had it all and it didn’t do anything good and let them kind of process that. One of the biggest lies is that if you can just get lots of stuff, you’ll be happy, but it’s actually not true. And here’s an account of that.
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And then of course going into the New Testament. So I’d say that my favorite way to start is using the Bible to teach. And this is the second most discussed topic in the Bible is money and possession. So there’s over 2200 verses. You can kind of, a neat way of finding them is the financial stewardship Bible is a beautiful bible that has highlighted all 2200 verses in green and it’s just in there so you can kind of use it as a family and see that.
And then practically, I love just introducing, so at 10 is when we kind of started the allowance idea, but before that there would be intermittent, maybe a birthday money or a money for Christmas. And in that moment we get to guide them towards a spending, giving and saving decision. And it’s a big debate about whether we let them make the decision of how much goes where or whether we give them the guardrails.
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So we’ve kind of decided the latter. We give them guardrails, but show the money, see that it’s going to these three places and then have them pray over where to give to. And then also the last thing I’ll say just, and I have a lot more if you want to flesh out more ideas, but just the idea of Christmas time, having a family kind of circle of giving where, or it’s called the giving circle, where we all want to decide where we want to give.
So we pool money together, they pool some of their allowance, we pool our money, and then we all decide, where should the money go? And we can have it go to different places. So for whatever reason, my son loves the idea of giving to Russian children. So yeah, that’s where some of the money went, to Russian children, and others went to adoption agencies in local. And so just doing that together as a family is also pretty fun. That’s great.
Janel Greig (12:30):
I love that, that you’ve involved your kids too in those super practical ways. One of the things I really appreciated, and it was new to me, was in the book you talk about knowing your money personality, and that’s one of the things I think individually that’s important, but also as a parent and maybe practical wise too, you can share how you and your wife do that.
Did you just identify based on giving some of that freedom to your kids? Oh, this is what type of money personality they have. And so then you adjust how you interact with them and the money. But can you speak to that a little bit? The money personality and as a parent, how to come alongside our kids and equip them based on their money style.
Dr. Shane Enete (13:10):
And there’s different dimensions and different assessment tools for this. One of the big ones is how naturally loose or tight are you with money? And you could say is another question to ask whether to find that out is spending painful or spending pleasurable. And my daughter came out of the womb, the father’s daughter, I hate spending. Spending is painful. And they say just psychologically, if something costs more, it’s worse. If something’s cheaper, it’s better.
And then on the flip side, if you’re more loose, you see if you pay more, then it’s higher quality. So you want to pay more because you’re going to get a better thing. And so you tend to be okay spending. It’s fun because the more you spend, the better things you’re getting. For me, the more I spend, the more it’s painful and I feel like, so yeah. So Sage came out, my daughter, and she will get things and she’ll hide them and store them away, and we won’t know about them for months, that she had. And we just cleaned out things after Christmas and there were three or four gifts that we had to throw away. They were a couple years old.
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She stored them away and then just decided she didn’t want. And then my son, he’s not that way. So he sees something he’s going to want to enjoy, he’s going to want to engage. There are some that see the material world as a way to engage the world and enjoy it and others that see the material world as in the way of the enjoyment of the world. And so I’m the latter. The combination of being tight with money and seeing the material world is in your way means that I can be difficult to live with.
Sometimes we’re at the grocery store, I’m like, why can’t you choose a cheaper enemy, please? But we kind of hassle, but I go under budget, but then I make life miserable. But again, that’s the counsel for me, and my wife is like, all right, so we’re going to have these tendencies, so wife’s going to enjoy spending and it’s going to be a pain point for me. How can we move towards each other? And I have a book coming out next year with Moody, it’s called The Eight Great Money Dates. And so it’s how to engage in financial conversations in non-threatening ways. And I have date ideas to make it more fun.
Dr. Matt Jones (15:31):
Fantastic. That’s great.
Dr. Shane Enete (15:32):
So because everyone kind of comes in with these different ways of viewing and different relationships. So regarding kids, I know for Sage, we’ve got to try and loosen her up a bit. And for Silas, my son, we need to create some self-control. Sage has it up the wazoo, and so then her tendencies will be towards hoarding. And then Silas, he’s going to want to, just like a playful otter, is going to want to just enjoy whatever’s there.
And so we’ve got to see, they say in Bible, the person without self-control is a city without a wall and it’s unprotected. And so how can we help engage and give some habits and patterns for him to, there’s only so much you can do as a parent, but you can at least help maybe move things towards a certain direction that could help.
Dr. Matt Jones (16:26):
Yeah, I really appreciate that. I look at my kids, they’re 22, 20, 18, and Hannah has a pretty good balance, but then Tyler man, he’s like your son, he is a spender. He gets it, he spends it, and then Kenzie, it is painful. I appreciate you putting that language to that, because I wrote down, it’s like pulling teeth. So I get that boy, she’s in two weddings this summer and she’s like, dad, I don’t want to have to spend money on these dresses, which she’s super excited about being in the weddings, but it’s just like, oh.
So I am curious in light of that, how important is it for parents to model what they’re teaching about money? What stands out to you in terms of the parents’ role in not just teaching, but also modeling what they’re trying to lead their kids in?
Dr. Shane Enete (17:14):
Yeah, I’d say kids are like genius inspectors. They know integrity when it’s there. And so if you’re telling them to save, but you have credit card debt or if you’re telling ’em to give, but you’re super tight-fisted, they’ll know that and they’re not going to say it, but they’ll probably just dismiss whatever you’re saying. And actions are important.
So I’d say to me, generosity is the purpose, the whole point of stewardship, the reason why we’re given our very breath is to steward God’s breath that he gave us. And so, same with finances. And so then I want to save and I want to create order and budgeting so that we can give more as a family. And so just one example, we found $50 in a 7-Eleven parking lot and Sage was with me, and I just looked at it and it felt like this wasn’t ours.
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And we kind of went around to see if it was anyone’s, but it wasn’t. And so then I was like, hey, let’s pray about where this should go. I love instilling this idea of you set money aside first as first fruit, and you kind involve the Holy Spirit about how much that should be. And then you pray that God puts someone in your path that needs it, and it’s much more adventurous than just a set 10% that you just forget about. And so it was fun.
I’d said, all right, we’re going to pray that God puts someone in your path. And so we just drove around in our neighborhood and then there was a local kind of person in need who was deaf, and he kind of hangs out in the grocery store that we interact with. And so he was in our path, so it was like, oh, let’s give it to him.
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So then, but that kind of moment I’m sure is reinforcing what we’re saying and is important and then just equipping them. I’d say one last thing about having integrity is if you are projecting your worry openly about money all the time, then they’re going to feel that and that would move them towards either overspending or underspending. And so there is a sense of you don’t want to involve your kids too much with your personal finances.
But then if my kids are like, we want to go to Disneyland, our friends have passes, it’s like, well, you have to understand if we do that, then we can’t do this. And then to be able to explain it in ways that’s not defensive, but that we in ways that are worshipful. So anyway, so there’s that attitude, like how stressed out are you as a parent? And we don’t do this perfectly at all, but I do think it’s a part of teaching them, is how calm we are about money and yeah. That’s great.
Janel Greig (20:13):
Yeah, that’s great. That’s awesome. All right. Well, Shane, we have a fun little segment on the show that we like to do is speed round. And that gets us the ability to get to know you a little bit more and our listeners get to know some fun facts about you. The only rule for it is that they have to be short answers.
Dr. Shane Enete (20:29):
Okay.
Janel Greig (20:29):
So are you ready?
Dr. Shane Enete (20:31):
I’m ready.
Janel Greig (20:32):
Okay. Coffee, tea or water?
Dr. Shane Enete (20:34):
Coffee, black. Nothing.
Janel Greig (20:36):
All right. You’re an early bird or night owl?
Dr. Shane Enete (20:42):
Earlier the better, but kids have made me wake up later.
Janel Greig (20:46):
One thing that you can’t live without?
Dr. Shane Enete (20:53):
Oh, well, you have to tell me that I can’t use spiritual language. Of course I’m going to say Jesus, but if I’m not doing anything related to spiritual things, I don’t know. Water. I’m an aqua jock, so surfing, swimming, and triathlons. So for me, the water would be difficult to be without.
Janel Greig (21:16):
That’s fantastic. All right. Dogs, cats, or neither?
Dr. Shane Enete (21:22):
Dogs. And then cats do plot our demise every day.
Dr. Matt Jones (21:29):
There you go. The cat disliker. I love it.
Janel Greig (21:33):
Favorite hobby outside of work? What’s that look like?
Dr. Shane Enete (21:38):
Painting.
Janel Greig (21:39):
Oh really? I was going to say water, but paint. Did you paint that painting behind you on the wall?
Dr. Shane Enete (21:42):
No, but I have, our house has others, but yeah, I love oil painting.
Janel Greig (21:47):
Lovely. Oh, that’s awesome. What’s one book you could read over and over?
Dr. Matt Jones (21:53):
Besides the Bible. Besides the Bible.
Janel Greig (21:55):
Yeah. Thanks, Matt.
Dr. Shane Enete (21:57):
It’d be Les Mis or Lord of the Rings.
Janel Greig (22:00):
Good. Do you have a go-to comfort movie or show? Maybe it’s Lord of the Rings. Huh?
Dr. Shane Enete (22:08):
I know, right? No, it’s not Lord of the Rings.
Janel Greig (22:12):
That’s not very comfort.
Dr. Shane Enete (22:13):
Well, so, BBC Pride and Prejudice.
Janel Greig (22:16):
Oh man, you and my husband would get along. That’s his favorite. Favorite.
Dr. Shane Enete (22:21):
Yeah, it’s our sick movie, so whenever anyone’s sick.
Janel Greig (22:23):
I love it.
Dr. Shane Enete (22:24):
We’re going through all five episodes.
Janel Greig (22:27):
Well done. And then last one, biggest misconception about money that Christians have?
Dr. Shane Enete (22:33):
That Jesus hates it.
Janel Greig (22:35):
Yeah, yeah.
Dr. Matt Jones (22:36):
Yeah. That’s cool.
Janel Greig (22:39):
That’s good.
Dr. Matt Jones (22:39):
So I had a question that’s bothering me in terms of parents being a model. I’ve noticed more and more churches, they just do giving online, which is fine, and I get it. How do we model for our kids giving to the body of Christ when it’s pretty much done online? And obviously you don’t want to make a show of it, but less and less, from what I’ve read and understood, less and less people in general, but children in particular are giving back to their local church. And I’m just curious how you model that on the digital giving age.
Dr. Shane Enete (23:19):
I think the best tool to transition people away, no longer an offering bucket. And even the offering basket was not a great tool. It was peer pressure. Your mom would just hand you something to throw in. So it was really passive, but there’s something called a donor-advised fund, and it’s kind of the future of giving. And you open up an account, and my book explains this a little bit more, and you can look this up online, but you give to the donor-advised fund, and then that gets pooled with all your, if you’ve done any other giving, and they can get invested and earn money or it can get sent out to churches and to other nonprofits. And you can make your kids.
Dr. Matt Jones (24:01):
Summit, like Summit.
Dr. Shane Enete (24:05):
So you can make your kids subadvisors.
Janel Greig (24:08):
Oh, wow.
Dr. Shane Enete (24:10):
And it’s intergenerational so that if you do build up, because it’s a mini endowment, you can kind of set up your own family endowment that goes to directional giving. So you give direction in the giving. So you could say, I want three kids to go to camp with this, and then you can fund it with enough money so that it goes out every year with some earnings that it’s developing by being invested in the stock market and the bond market. And so that’s how we’ve given.
We said, all right, and all the giving’s in one place. So there’s just one tax statement and you don’t get all these nonprofits sending you all this stuff that you have to, is it just a nightmare? And you can do non-cash giving, so you can give stocks to avoid capital gains tax, and you can do all sorts of other types of asset based giving.
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So, but regarding kids, they get to kind of research the nonprofit they want to do, and then we can have, they’re not full subadvisors yet, but once they become teenagers, I want them to be subadvisors. So they take ownership. And so they’re basically managing a foundation that is our family foundation. And so I can superfund it, they can superfund it, they can just put more money that’s necessary and then have it go out in smaller batches then. So I think that’s important.
And then the other thing I think is really important is to involve time and talents in that giving. So never allow someone just to give just money, but also make sure that they’re giving of their time and their talents in some way. So if it is to children in Russia, you have to have them get invested in Russia in some way with their time and then if possible, with their talents as well.
But that combination of whole person giving is much more effective and you can get around the digitization if you’re involving your time and your talents. That’s like the trifecta. If you’re giving to a hospital with children developmental challenges and you actually go in and paint for them or go and spend time with them, then all of a sudden you’ll start to identify new needs and then you’ll want to give more. And it’s just this virtuous cycle.
Dr. Matt Jones (26:22):
Cool. Thank you, Shane.
Janel Greig (26:24):
Yeah. Well, Shane, in wrapping up the content today, it’s been great and I think we’ll make sure that all of the resources that you shared are in the episode notes so our listeners can link those and find those. But if a parent wanted to take one upside down step today, putting God’s kingdom first in their finances, what concrete action might you suggest?
Dr. Shane Enete (26:47):
Okay, so I have an imprinting exercise. So I have chickens. Now, our family is a chicken family. So when chicks hatch, they imprint. So the first thing they see, and it could be an adult human or a chicken, ideally it’s a chicken, and then that’s their mother. And so in the same way, no matter where we are in our faith walk, when new money comes into our lives like a paycheck or tax refund, it imprints.
And if we don’t do anything, if we’re not proactive, it’s going to imprint to our heart as ours and we kind of tuck it away and it’s no longer totally available for what God might want for it. And so I think there’s an imprinting exercise we can do where we walk through our identity as we see money coming our way so that we can keep it out of our heart and keep it available for us and for our community.
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And just to me, it makes it so that we always want to keep money instead of our personal vault all locked away. We want to keep it in a family mantle kind of setting where it’s available both for us and for others. And we’re just kind of attentive. We kind of have our antenna up about God most likely uses resources that we earn for our provision or family.
But so often there’s also, we get a little bit extra and there’s a need and it just is a neat marriage of our, we’re just kind of passing along. So the imprinting you do is, so right now just think of a paycheck or amount of money that’s coming your way within the next month or two. So if you can just kind of have a vision of that, and so you haven’t really received it in your heart yet.
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It’s not here yet, but you kind of know it’s coming. So for me, it’d be my next paycheck. So I have that dollar amount in my mind. And then we want to go through Romans. So Romans says that you were to know that you were dead to sin, alive in Christ. And then it says to count that, which is an inventory term, where the apples, you have to count them. And so this is, you’re going to count it to be true that you are dead to sin alive in Christ.
And then this third part is, you like a bride that just gets married to her husband. You are married now, you present yourself as married. And so in the same way, we’re dead to sin alive in Christ. We know it. And so it says to present all of our members, including our heart and whatever we’re touching.
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So this is the paycheck. It gets presented as dead to sin alive in Christ. And so we’ve imprinted it not to our old self, to our new self. And so now it’s available for either saving, spending, or giving. And so to make that choice, then I like to just have three numbers come out of my mind and then pray. And if any number seems really like I’m totally against it, then I want to pray and become available to it.
And then once I’m surrendered, then I want to choose whatever sounds most fun and just so I avoid any kind of legalistic language, but I also want to involve the Holy Spirit. And so that imprinting exercise is pretty powerful and helps get you towards an upside down kind of world where money isn’t just ours, but our new selves are going to manage money very well, and it’s going to be a lot more joyful and a whole heart if we can imprint new money to our new selves.
Janel Greig (30:02):
That’s fantastic. I love that practical, and that’s something our listeners can take away and apply immediately and put into practice. So thank you for sharing that. Shane, thank you so much for being on the show today. Thank you for the work that you’re doing. And again, we’ll link those resources that you shared in the episode notes. Matt, always, thank you. Appreciate you being here.
Listeners, thank you so much for joining us on this episode of Upside Down Parenting. We hope today’s conversation with Shane gave you encouragement and tools as you teach your kids about stewarding their resources. Well, remember, managing money isn’t just about numbers. It’s about teaching stewardship, modeling generosity, and creating a culture of faith and intentionality in your home. Even small steps can make a big impact over time.
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Dr. Shane Enete (31:11):
Thank you. Thanks so much for having me.