money
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When a man asks Jesus for assurance of salvation, Jesus ties his desire of assurance to his wealth—a message that scares us, too.
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When we talk about the problem with money, we need to dig into why we can’t trust in money to solve all of our problems now.
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The challenge of Jesus’s teaching with the pious young man is that Jesus condemns wealth in a way few Americans are willing to accept.
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The challenge of wealth for people in the United States is that we’d rather fight about what it implies about the person rather than their behavior.
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We struggle to see why the money-changers in the gospel are a problem for Jesus. Because we don’t want to see the problem itself.
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The concept of usury—the lending of money immorally, to exploit another—is widely condemned by religions. And practiced everywhere.