One Share of Coca-Cola

If you purchased one share of Coca-Cola when it went public in 1919, how much do you think it would worth today?

Hold that question.

One piece of the vision for Osceola Assembly is for everyone to be a shareholder in what God is going to do. Part of that, however, means investing financially in the Kingdom through giving. (Yeah, I'm preaching to the choir, but this is a message we can't leave behind just because the economy stinks right now.)

I like to think of giving as buying stock in the kingdom. And the truth is that those kingdom shares will earn compound interest for eternity. Talk about a Return on Investment (ROI). Eternal dividends!

Check this out: If you purchased one share of Coca-Cola stock in 1919, and simply held that one share, by the year 2000 it would have split into 4608 shares. And that original $40 investment, if you kept reinvesting the dividends, would have been worth $7 million. To further your pain, if your great-great grandparents had purchased one of Asa Candler's original shares in 1892, that $100 investment would be worth $7.34 billion.

Here's the bottom line: we'll never regret one ounce of energy, one second of time, or one penny of money invested in the kingdom of God.