Comments on: Money: The arch-idol http://www.pastorfairchild.com/2009-05/11/money-the-arch-idol/ Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:45:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Bob Thomas http://www.pastorfairchild.com/2009-05/11/money-the-arch-idol/comment-page-1/#comment-155826 Bob Thomas Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:34:15 +0000 http://www.pastorfairchild.com/?p=307#comment-155826 I am in total agreement with you, David. I was googling this topic because I was reading an Apocrypha of Jubilees, came across Abram and idols he smashed or burned. The translator referenced to Ps. cxxxv. 17, and it synced up! Money is a huge idol! Hence, I googled and found you. I am in total agreement with you, David. I was googling this topic because I was reading an Apocrypha of Jubilees, came across Abram and idols he smashed or burned. The translator referenced to Ps. cxxxv. 17,
and it synced up! Money is a huge idol! Hence, I googled and found you.

]]> By: Pastor David http://www.pastorfairchild.com/2009-05/11/money-the-arch-idol/comment-page-1/#comment-155322 Pastor David Wed, 20 May 2009 01:29:03 +0000 http://www.pastorfairchild.com/?p=307#comment-155322 Fox, I think you missed the point of the post. I don't think anyone should subscribe to a poverty or prosperity theology. The issue is idolatry, it's about what we worship and how we use our resources that God has allowed us to steward. They are His resources, so we should ask, "If Jesus were right here, how would He spend this money?" If nothing else, the question should concern us and our propensity to massive consumeristic idolatry should alarm us. I don't think our hearts are as quite as honest as we'd like, so it's good to have God's people talking about this together in community. Fox,
I think you missed the point of the post. I don’t think anyone should subscribe to a poverty or prosperity theology.

The issue is idolatry, it’s about what we worship and how we use our resources that God has allowed us to steward. They are His resources, so we should ask, “If Jesus were right here, how would He spend this money?” If nothing else, the question should concern us and our propensity to massive consumeristic idolatry should alarm us. I don’t think our hearts are as quite as honest as we’d like, so it’s good to have God’s people talking about this together in community.

]]> By: Nadiya-Shashadara Dasa http://www.pastorfairchild.com/2009-05/11/money-the-arch-idol/comment-page-1/#comment-155307 Nadiya-Shashadara Dasa Tue, 19 May 2009 20:21:54 +0000 http://www.pastorfairchild.com/?p=307#comment-155307 David, How then does anyone who is Christian justify a life of relative riches? If I live in Coranado in a $1Mil+ home and drive and drive an Escalade then can I ever claim to have the Gospel in my heart? And then where does it end? After all are not most of us Americans living lives of luxury compared to the world, while much of the world starves? I have always strugled with the balance point on this. Fox David,
How then does anyone who is Christian justify a life of relative riches? If I live in Coranado in a $1Mil+ home and drive and drive an Escalade then can I ever claim to have the Gospel in my heart? And then where does it end? After all are not most of us Americans living lives of luxury compared to the world, while much of the world starves? I have always strugled with the balance point on this.
Fox

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