Million Dollar Yachts

Million Dollar Yachts

So, you believe the money for yachts is a blessing from God. Well, before spending it on quarter million dollar yachts, let alone 250 million dollar yachts like Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen's Octopus (photo), consider this: for one dollar, one Bible can reach a Christian in a country where they are banned, and every Bible that reaches such a place results on average in 5 new Christians (source).

For the price of one of the quarter million dollar yachts, 250,000 Bibles can reach such a place and 1.25 million souls saved. For one of the million dollar yachts, a million Bibles can reach it and 5 million souls saved. The number rises to 50 million souls for a 10 million dollar yacht; for the half-billion dollar Gigayacht, 500 million Bibles can reach the lost and 2.5 billion souls - 40% of the earth's population - saved!

As mentioned earlier, a yacht is by definition a boat of pleasure. Will God, in whom you believe, be pleased with you spending His money on a (multi-) million dollar pleasure toy while millions of Christians around the world are without Bibles? If you truly can't do without a yacht, why not pick a small yacht and invest the rest in eternity?

And let's remember the Words of Jesus:

"And that servant who knew his master’s will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more." (Luke 12:47-48)

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