Given tough economics times and Wall Street’s screaming roller coaster ride, what ought Christians to do?
Image via Wikipedia There is certainly a biblical injunction that we discern the times. God calls us to do this, however, not so we will know the right move to make at the right time, but so that we will remember what the right move always was. Circumstances don’t change our calling, though they can wake us up to our calling. Such is the case here. Christians should do what Christians are always called to do. First, we should be looking to our own sin. Why is it that Christians are up in arms politically during a time of shocking deficits, high unemployment and a moribund real estate market, but have been comparatively content over almost forty years of abortion on demand? What does that say about us and our priorities? The obvious answer is this- money is an idol to us. We think because money seems to be even more important to Gordon Gekko , or Donald Trump , that we are therefore free from seeing it as an idol. We think that having less than somebody else is proof we’...