This op-ed originally appeared in Baptist News Global
The church is bursting at the seams with a fresh vigor for aligning our faith with how we use money — especially how we invest money. New organizations are springing up and thriving, many books are being written, podcasts are proliferating. The question is: Why it is happening now. Why not earlier?
The split between the sacred and the secular — the notion rooted in the ancient Gnostic vision that God cares only about spiritual things — has been tempting the church since its birth. Business long has been seen as something that happens outside the church, is less important than the real work of “full-time ministers,” but is laudatory to the extent it funds evangelism and missions. This well-worn misunderstanding is beginning to fade as more people are awakening to the importance of using all our money in a way consistent with the biblical vision of shalom.
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