{"id":540,"date":"2006-08-16T11:51:38","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T11:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/money_or_minist.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:45:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:45:37","slug":"money_or_minist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/money_or_minist.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Money or Ministry?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dan over at Cerulean Sanctum<\/a> is about to go on hiatus for a month (which, if you are in a position to need a freelance writer, you might be able to help him come back sooner.<\/a>) Before he leaves, however, he’s promised some hard hitting posts. Yesterday’s<\/a> lived up to it.
\nRelated to my post yesterday<\/a> on our pursuit of our own wealth instead of sharing it, and this quote from Soren Kierkegaard<\/a>, he wonders if we’re really willing to pursue ministry over money. He says:<\/p>\n

the response [to the cross] is EXTREME. It means death. The cross says, Now here you die, here and now. All your desires, all your hopes, all of you.<\/em> It also means real life. Have we tasted it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That hits me where I live for sure. America is a money and possessions oriented culture. We are surrounded by stuff, stuff and more stuff. We are told incessantly that we need it and deserve it. You cannot avoid it and it pulls at you. Even if you resist it you cannot be sure that all you are accomplishing is slowing the tide’s pulling you out to the sea of materialism.
\nI wonder a lot if I am too immersed in this culture of wealth, even if I stand at its fringe, to recognize how far I am from the cross? It’s scary indeed. Go read Dan’s post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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