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Ramsey responds to critics about new home

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Last Updated on February 16, 2022

Dave Ramsey responds to critics who were accusing him of not practicing what he preaches.

If there’s one thing Christians do better than anyone else, it’s judging other Christians.

Sometimes, they try to get clever about it, claiming they’re only judging those who say they’re Christians, which really means they’re judging not only the person’s actions but their honesty about faith as well.

That’s two for the price of one.

Dave Ramsey, a financial coach who works to educate people about how to live a debt-free, God-honoring life, is a popular target. You know, because Christians who like to judge just love to go after big names among their own camp first.

But Ramsey surprised everyone recently by commenting to criticism about a new multi-million dollar home he bought in Tennessee.

The focus of the post to which Ramsey responded was the fact that Ramsey’s new home has a value (combined with the land) of $4.9 million and that mortgage records — more specifically, the lack of a mortgage record — is evidence that Ramsey did practice what he preached, paying for the land and the construction of the home with cash.

See the original post here.

Apparently, Ramsey found the discussion on Twitter and left a very well-written response to address pretty much all of the concerns.

But he begins with this:

First, None of this is any of your business nor is it your problem, however in an effort to teach I have always been overly transparent. So I will try to help.

It’s funny how easy we Christians make things that don’t — or shouldn’t — concern us both our “business” and our “problem,” isn’t it?

Ramsey goes on to point out that he and his family do tithe, and they tithe before tax money. How many Christians with an opinion about someone else’s wealth tithe at all, much less their before-tax earnings?

He reminds his detractors that his family has no debt of any kind: that includes corporate, credit card, and mortgage debt.

How many of them can say they don’t have a mortgage, even if they have managed to avoid the credit card trap?

And for any of them who do have such debt, why are they even beginning to criticize someone else?

In Matthew 7:5, Jesus himself reminds hypocrites they are to “first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will clearly see to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”

The relative size of the error (the plank vs. the speck) is not dependent on square footage of one’s home or property.

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