Tons and bunches
I grew up charismatic with a strong word of faith influence. There was a thing in the air: you gotta get rich. Setting aside untold damage this message has done in developing countries, this message has made the lives of actual people I know far more difficult than they needed to be. If you are supposed to get rich and you are supposed to do it by the blessing of God without ‘works’ and you aren’t very well off to start with, then you are easy prey for the multilevel marketing people and get-rich-now scammers.
I’m happy to see a lot of that has fallen by the wayside. For quite a while I have been looking for a viable, biblical replacement. I’m pretty sure a celebration of poverty isn’t it. I think I might be moving towards a thing that is. Knowing how bang-up-to-date I am, most of you reading this probably know and practice this thing already. Nevertheless, I am going to spend a few blog posts exploring what I am going to call abundance culture.
Photo: Andrew E. Larsen.
11 February 2010 Jeff Gill
tags: abundance
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