Christian Credit Repair Should Be At The Top Of Your List As A Christian.
Why should Christian credit repair be so important? And what about being a Christian makes it especially important that you fix your credit?
Well first off, as a Christian it is important to know how to repair your credit so that you don’t have to be under the heavy burden of be indebted to another person. It keeps you from living your best life. When you know that you owe someone something it affects your relationship with others, with God and even with yourself.
And the second reason to focus on Christian credit repair is that when you are in debt and have bad credit, you can’t give freely when you see someone in need.
Okay, this is getting creepily close to sounding sermon-esque, so why don’t I stop now and let you know how to repair your credit.
The Steps To Christian Credit Repair Are Simple!
First you have to know your financial goals so that you can create a spending and savings plan that will help you get there. Set goals that are going to help you become the person God made you to be. Do you want to buy a house, start a business or take a missions trip?
If so, great, while you are working to improve your credit you have a reason for the effort you are about to put toward repairing your credit.
Now your spending plan has to provide for your expenses today and at the same time build cash reserves for your future goals.
Your spending plan must include the following key elements.
- • Enough money to cover your current living expense. Nothing can get buy here and fall into the “I’ll just charge it” category
• Second you have to have an element of savings for those future dreams God has given you.
• And last but certainly not least is an emergency fund for all of those unexpected expenses that pop up and demand your money or in the past your credit.
Next you have to understand your credit report. Why? Because credit is essential in achieving your goals in the future. Bad credit equals paying more for everything you ever finance in the future.
You can get a free copy of your credit report online at
http://www.annualcreditreport.com
. Don’t fall for the slick advertising and free sounding website names, many will charge you, but not this link it is completely free once per year.
Once you have your free credit report, you need to review it in detail to be certain there are not things on there that are incorrect. This will give you the blueprint on how to repair credit.
From here you want to build up the positive entries on your credit report so that they dwarf any negative entries.
How?
Make small purchases using your credit and then make ALL of your payments on time. Why small purchases? Because you can make lots of then, get them paid off and get them onto your credit report much quicker than when you are working with large purchases.
Also, as you are making small purchases and paying them off, be careful to NEVER let your total balances become higher than 50% of your available credit on that line of credit.
So that’s it, a simple plan on how to repair credit as a Christian. It’s not glamorous, or instant, but it does work and within 6 months to a year, you will have fixed your credit.
Make sense?
Chad