Financial Stewardship

Few moral issues receive more attention in the New Testament than the use of personal possessions, which is perhaps surprising given the breadth of other sins that are addressed by Scripture. We might have expected that Christ and his apostles would be less concerned about the danger of materialism than sins committed against the first table of the law dealing with the person of God or than sexual sins, which were prominent in the Greek and Roman world. Why are money and possessions such a...