Mart Green
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Mart Green’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But if you want to grow in certain ways in certain places, then you're going to have to empower people.
Yeah, yeah. So that was a long process, but I kind of got into the three words, and they're G, H, and I. So I like to keep things simple. G is generous. I'm looking for people who are generous because I feel like that helps defeat one of Satan's tricks, you know, which is the lust of the eyes. I'm looking for someone who has humility, which beats the Satan's trick of the pride of life.
So I want people to be humble. And then the lust of the flesh would be integrity. So if you can find me, these are the three character traits. Somebody who's generous, somebody who has humility, and somebody who has integrity. Those are my friends.
Yeah, well, Randy Alcorn had talked about the three that Satan has. Satan created nothing, so he had to corrupt something. So he gave the neutrals. I said, Randy, you left me hanging here. I know the neutral. You know, there's nothing wrong with your possessions. There's nothing wrong with power. There's nothing wrong with pleasure. Those three Ps.
But I know the negatives to them, but I got to know the positives. So that's where I said, no, no, no, I have to know the antidote. So I just prayed about it, thought through, and said, well, how do you do that? And I thought about my grandmother. Well, she's generous. You don't have to worry about her. The lust of the eyes, she... She had no problem with that.
People who are humble don't have a problem with pride. People who have integrity don't have with the flesh. And they just happened to work out to GH and I, which I kind of liked.
Yeah, no, I think excellence is what we all are striving for, and excellence can bring that. How do you get mission fulfillment with economic sustainability? As a Christian, is there something wrong with making a lot of money? No, I don't think so. Okay. No, or you don't think so? No, no. Okay, I'm making sure. I know so. If you're going to be gray with me, I don't know. No, nothing wrong with it.
Nothing wrong with making money. Yeah. And in our case, we like to make more money because we give more money away. That's our motivating factor. We've not taken raises for 10 or 15 years now, you know, because God's done well for us. Don't feel sorry for me. There's nothing wrong with that. But what motivates us? Why do we put another store in? Why do we put 30 more stores?
That's just 30 more headaches that we're going to have. Because we love to give. We love to be generous. And we think if you do business with excellence, you can do business with excellence and you can make money. Yeah. God actually gave us work. Now, the fall may not work hard, but I think there's always been work. And so we get fulfillment in our work.
Yeah. Recently, I read a quote from Albert Einstein. He said he found the eighth great wonder of the world. I thought, what's the eighth great one in the world? You know, one of the smartest guy ever. And he said, compound interest. I'm going, compound interest. Yeah, it's very powerful.
If you take $1,000 and put it under a pillow and come back 40 years later, it's going to be worth a whole lot less than $1,000. All right? If you get simple interest, it's worth three times as much. If you get compound interest, it's like 15 times, you know? So compound interest is very powerful. I thought, wow. If he had met Jesus like I have, he would have said compound generosity. Hmm.
Because I believe compound generosity grows. So there's a lot of people that are holding their money. They're not doing stuff with it. I'm saying it's like putting it under the pillow. Put it to work. Because I do believe we're eternal beatings. I do believe. You know, you can't take it with you, but you can send it on ahead. So there are verses throughout the Bible that talks about God rewards.
Now, some people think it's here and now. I think, no, no, no, it's there and later. And I'd rather have it there and later. So I'm kicking as much stuff as I can to eternity. Because eternity is a whole lot longer than maybe the 100 years. Even if I lived to 100, I'd be lucky. But eternity is forever. So yeah, I'm encouraging people, store up your treasures on the other side.
Because yes, there's ROI, a business person, return on investment. But I realize it's eternal return on investment. So I want an EROI. What's going to matter 10,000 years from now?
Yeah, it's a dynamic process, as you could imagine. And yes, wealth has its issues. Now, it doesn't have the issue. I know where my food's coming from, my shelter and all that. So I'm blessed, blessed, blessed. But then you feel this stewardship responsibility. Where do you give that money? In our case, we actually have seven family members.
We've all worked together for nearly 50 years that make those decisions. So the other good news is there's more than one. But I say stewardship for us has three H's to it. One, a steward is generous. Well, that's your heart, right? You see something, you see a need, and you want to meet it. And so we all have that inside of us. If a child falls down, we help pick them up. That's a generous act.
And so that's your heart. But then you learn that sometimes people can tell you stories that aren't true, all right? And so you used your heart, and it was a heart-wrenching story, but come to find out, none of the money went where you said it was. So then you use your head. That's discerning. So I think good stewardship is both your heart and your head. and discerning and generosity.
That's good stewardship. And then for us, we believe the Holy Spirit actually can prompt us. And so there are different times that we've given to certain places because we felt like the Lord tapped somebody's heart and we'd have to say, hey, look, I just feel like maybe we should do this, but there's six more of you guys, let's all pray together.
And so there's been a few places where that's the way we gave.
What would you do? I would invest it making sure that people get God's word translated in their heart language.
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