There are a lot of things in life you can buy that will help you get ahead in life. They are for sale and if you’ve got the money to buy them they will return a dividend and many times a big one. For example, you can buy education and no one denies the value of having a degree. Even in this day and age it helps to have education to get ahead.

You can buy knowledge. In many fields including ministry, sometimes hiring an outside consultant can bring a fresh set of eyes to an old set of problems and get a new set of solutions that you never thought about before.

You can buy information. In fact, because of the internet and computerization you have a world of information at your fingertips that can help you take shortcuts, cut corners, and do things quicker and faster than ever before. Wheth…