Christians have a unique relationship with money. We maintain a healthy desire to have it, but at the same time we maintain a respectful fear of it. We believe that money equips us to do all kinds of good deeds, but also believe that the love of money is at the root of all kinds of evil. We work hard to earn it and then work hard to give it away. All the while we know that money has a unique power to reveal what’s going on in our hearts. We need money, we enjoy money, but we are also wary of money.
If we were to add up all the money that comes through our hands over the course of a lifetime, then compare it to how much we have at the present moment or how much we have at our final moment, I expect that most of us would be shocked. A person working a very middling kind of middle-class job is likely to have millions come and go, to be earned and spent or earned and donated. That person does not need to be a spendthrift to have earned an awful lot, to have spent
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