{"id":67,"date":"2007-05-13T17:19:16","date_gmt":"2007-05-13T21:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/13\/managing-money\/"},"modified":"2007-05-13T17:19:16","modified_gmt":"2007-05-13T21:19:16","slug":"managing-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/managing-money","title":{"rendered":"Managing Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible certainly warns us against <em>the desire<\/em> to be rich, and those warnings ought to be heeded (1 Timothy 6:9,10). Contentment is the hallmark of the genuine believer in Jesus who lives on limited resources.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If, on the other hand, you are already rich, it is not the fact that you are a millionaire that in the end messes you up.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the fact you <em>trust in uncertain\u00a0riches<\/em>\u00a0which becomes your undoing (1 Timothy 6:17)\u00a0. So Paul distinguishes between the non-rich who desire to be rich (they should be content) and the rich (they should guard against the temptation to trust their wealth rather than God).<\/p>\n<p>That having been said, GenX Finance has an interesting post that is worth a read: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/genxfinance.com\/2007\/05\/07\/the-top-5-ways-to-become-a-millionaire\/\" title=\"The Top Five Ways to Become a Millionaire\">The Top Five Ways to Become a Millionaire\u00a0<\/a> (HT: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hughhewitt.com\" title=\"Hugh Hewitt\">Hugh Hewitt<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Is there anything about what we believe that prohibits Christians of simple means from managing their money in such a way as to become wealthy? What are the benefits? What are the pitfalls?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible certainly warns us against the desire to be rich, and those warnings ought to be heeded (1 Timothy 6:9,10). Contentment is the hallmark of the genuine believer in Jesus who lives on limited resources.\u00a0 If, on the other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/managing-money\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}