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We shouldn’t let guilt drive us to relinquish all material possessions, nor should we let greed inspire us to consume all that we can earn.

Christianity is unique and that it’s core precepts hinge on his historical realities that can in fact be investigated

Matthew 25:31-45 paraphrase:
For I was hungry, while you had all you needed. I was thirsty, but you drank bottled water. I was a stranger, and you wanted me deported. I needed clothes, but you needed more clothes. I was sick, and you pointed out the behaviors that led to my sickness. I was in prison, and you said I was getting what I deserved.

Money becomes mammon whenever our passion for nice things is stronger than our compassion for the wounded in our world

Our moral duty toward an injustice increases as our capacity to remedy that injustice increases

Repeated studies fun that as a person’s level of wealth increases, their feelings of compassion and empathy go down, and their feelings of entitlement, of deserving ness, and their ideology of self-interest increase

Stewardship is the active and responsible management of God’s creation for God’s purposes

It is not poverty in itself that makes one blessed by God but the humble, deodorant, God-trusting disposition that we often fun accompanying the oppressed poor in Scripture. Likewise, riches themselves are not wicked, but only if they are unrighteously obtained or used…

“How much should we give?” -> “How much do we need to keep?”

All people seek happiness because that’s how our happy God created us. But that happiness can only be found in God’s blueprint for living.