Issue 09 Preaching about MoneyBlog | Preaching money
Preaching money
Author: Andy PeckPost Date: 16.12.16
reaching about money in contemporary church life often falls into one of two conflicting categories. The first category warns that money is the root of all evil. Christians should therefore tread carefully around issues to do with money. The second and conflicting category of preaching affirms money as an avenue of divine blessing. Therefore money need not be avoided or approached with caution.
Category one is the kind of preaching with which I grew up and which can still be found in many quarters of the church. These are the sermons which point to the rich fool, to the rich young ruler, to the likelihood of the rich entering heaven being less than a camel passing through the eye of a needle; in other words this is preaching money as the root of all evil. There is a clear biblical basis for this approach.
However there is also a clear biblical basis for the alternative category. Here such sermons will point to blessings of Abraham, to the Deuteronomic reminder that it is God who gives the ability to gain wealth, allude to the example of characters like Job who was both fabulously wealthy and deeply godly, consistently maintain that God’s very nature
