The establishment of wealth is not a zero-sum game. Kevin Kinghorn talks about how wealth is accumulated and how everyone can benefit from entrepreneurship.
We frequently teach that financial independence is equivalent to financial stewardship, but are they really the same thing? Kevin Kinghorn discusses John Wesley, mortgage burning, and what it means to critically engage the way we, as Christians, view wealth and financial independence.
It was the Irish evangelist Gypsy Smith who famously remarked: “There are five gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and the Christian. And most people will never read the first four.” This begs the question: How are we being “read”? Kevin Brown asks, do our actions consistently flow from our beliefs? Are we being consistent—or are we consistently inconsistent?
What do business leaders really need from their pastors? Helen Mitchell shares the most beneficial things a pastor can do to help those in their congregations who are business-oriented.
What does stealing have in common with lending and interest? While we consider one a crime, is it really so different from the other? Michael Matlock discusses the issue of usury in Deuteronomy.
The move toward political correctness makes Christians apprehensive to share their faith openly at work, especially in the public school system. Can this current shift toward PC culture, instead of scattering Christians from the public square, gather us emboldened to bridge the sacred-secular divide?
At one point in his book, How God Makes The World A Better Place, David Wright outlines four “Wesleyan principles that promote personal well-being at work.” In this post I want to recap these four principles, connecting them to Wesley’s own practices and advice to others.
Theologically, we might say that a Wesleyan view of salvation is not merely about being declared righteous. It is also about being made righteous, as we cooperate with God’s sanctifying grace. These four Wesleyan-inspired points about the nature of salvation have ready application to our financial habits and choices.
Becoming a member of a Methodist Society meant signing up for a certain level of accountability and growth. This accountability wasn’t reserved for the long-time, mature Christians who wanted to ‘go deeper’ in their faith. More specifically, there were 3 commitments you had to agree to when joining a Methodist Society.
How can we tell the difference between the social impact of non-Christian versus Kingdom-based social enterprises (aka Business-As-Mission, or BAM companies)? What constitutes a social impact that is Kingdom-based?
If you think of ethics as a set of rules or prohibitions we’re not to violate, then you’ve completely missed the point of what ethics is for these three philosophers.
If Wesley isn’t well-known today for placing such an emphasis on what we do with our money, the reason is not that he didn’t talk about it very much.
