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    The Quest
    The Quest
    The Quest
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    The Quest

    By Darren Key

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    Research indicates that only about thirty percent of Americans consider themselves to be financially healthy.  In The Quest, Darren Key offers readers the good news that financial health is not some mythical entity always searched for but never found. It is real, it exists, and it can be achieved without winning a sweepstakes or the lottery. Achieving financial success requires leaving faulty thinking and bad choices behind and embarking on a better path.  Using epic stories like The Wizard of Oz and The Hobbit, The Quest takes readers on a fun, life-changing journey to a place where financial health that honors God is not just a fairy tale but a blessed reality.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDarren Key
    Release dateDec 7, 2021
    ISBN9798201664626
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      Book preview

      The Quest - Darren Key

      Dedication

      To my wife, Rachel:

      Your love and commitment to our family

      inspires me to be a better man,

      leader, and servant of God.

      Introduction

      A Quest Worth Making

      He who completes a quest does not merely find something.

      He becomes something.

      —Lev Grossman

      A

      quest, by definition, is a long or arduous search for something considered to be important or valuable. Since the days of Abraham, who packed up all his belongings and set out on a journey to an unknown land, people have gone on quests. In fact, the idea of an epic search pulls so hard on the human heart and imagination that history, literature, and pop culture have become filled with quest stories.

      As a child, I’m sure you sat spellbound as Dorothy, Toto, and their three friends searched the Land of Oz for a mysterious Wizard. In elementary school, you learned about the California Gold Rush and our nation’s quest to put a man on the moon. More recently, you likely became immersed in Harry Potter’s quest to destroy the evil villain, Voldemort. At some point, you surely got caught up in Indiana Jones’s quest to find the lost Ark of the Covenant or Frodo Baggins’s quest to destroy the Ring of Power.

      Nothing captures our collective imagination quite like the idea of a quest. And it’s not hard to understand why. When someone goes on a quest, four things invariably happen.

      First, he goes places he’s never been. Often these places are wondrous and mysterious and, of course, dangerous.

      Second, he encounters challenges he’s never faced. Mountains, storms, monsters and villains abound, all of which test the quester’s mettle like never before.

      Third, he discovers abilities he’s never used. He finds reserves of strength, courage, and cunning that were never needed in his hum-drum, pre-quest existence.

      And fourth, he finds something he never expected. This is the best part, the reason we want to tag along on these epic journeys. We sense that there’s something out there just beyond the horizon that is bigger, better, and more life-changing than anything the quester has imagined.

      Think about Dorothy, surrounded by Munchkins, standing on the platform, ready to board the hot air balloon that will take her from the Emerald City back to Kansas. In the beginning, her Holy Grail—the thing she was searching for—was simply a way to get home. She found it, yes, but she found so much more along the way: friendship, inspiration, and a completely different way of thinking about life, home, and family.

      I’m challenging you to go on a quest of your own, a journey to find something most people don’t have but wish they did. A search to find something that will dramatically change your life for the better. I’m talking about the quest to achieve complete financial health that not only provides for your future, but also honors God.

      According to a November, 2019 article in Forbes, only 29% of Americans consider themselves financially healthy.[i] This means that seven out of ten Americans have more money going out than coming in, too much debt, too few investments, a lack of savings, and a heavy load of stress. Many are tip-toeing along the very edge of financial ruin, living one misfortune away from being wiped out, with no idea what to do about it.

      If you’re already financially healthy in a way that honors God, praise the Lord! You will still find wisdom or inspiration in this book that will help you become even better at handling your money. But if you are in that group of seven out of ten people who are not financially healthy, pay attention because I have bad news and good news.

      The bad news is that I can offer you no easy fixes. We love easy fixes. It’s why diet pills that promise to give you the body of an Olympic athlete without diet or exercise actually sell. But when it comes to achieving financial health that honors God, there’s no magic pill, potion, platitude, or podcast.

      The good news, however, is that financial health that honors God does exist. It’s not some mythical entity like Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster. It is out there, and it is attainable. And I mean for everybody. Maybe you’ve always believed that the only hope you had of living free from financial stress was winning the Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes or Powerball. Not true! Anyone can find financial health that honors God.

      But you’re not going to find it where you’re sitting now.

      Where you’re sitting right now is the problem. Maybe you had a tragic event or made some poor choices. It may have been unintentional, because you received bad counsel, or because no one ever taught you how to manage money, but that doesn’t change the reality. And yes, you have a lot of company, which might make you feel a tiny bit better. But if you’re financially unhealthy, you can be sure that nothing you’ve been doing holds any hope for a better future.

      To find financial health that honors God, you’re going to have to climb out of that hole and set out on a quest. Yes, it will take you to places you’ve never been. Yes, it will bring you face to face with challenges you’ve never experienced. Yes, it will force you to dig deep and discover abilities you didn’t know you had. But in the end, it will put you right where you want to be. And yes, it will turn out better than you imagined, for what you will find at the end of your journey is not just financial health that honors God, but a brand new you. You’ll be surprised at how you changed emotionally and spiritually along the way. You’ll be surprised at how much healthier your lifestyle is. And you’ll be surprised at how good it feels to finally have one of the most important areas of your life fixed. Without question, this is a quest worth making.

      Let me explain why this is so important to me.

      For over twenty years I have led Christian Financial Resources. CFR manages hundreds of millions of dollars for thousands of Christian families, businesses, and ministries. You can’t do work like this without getting an up-close look at the challenges and struggles people face with their money. I’m talking about good, godly people who have the purest of intentions, but who, for whatever reason, struggle with financial

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