This is John at Bible Project.

Today is a little different.

Eight years ago I made a podcast episode called God and Money. It's about two men who met at Harvard

Business School out in Boston and they became friends there and they decided to

write a paper together on what the Bible has to say about money. And writing this paper became

this linchpin moment in their lives because they started to read all these really challenging things the

Bible had to say about money and about being

generous and made them reconsider the way they thought about everything. I had the

privilege of sitting down and talking with them eight years ago and making this podcast and I'm excited for us to listen to

it again as we've been in real time wrestling through Jesus's teachings on money in the

Sermon on the Mount. So thanks for joining us today. This is a story about God and money. Now you are now you are a shoulder please get the test now it's time to

now.

So Tim money can be really dangerous. Doesn't the Bible say the love of money is the

root of all kinds of evil or something like that? Yeah, yep, that's in the first letter of Timothy

from Paul.

The Bible has tons of warnings about money,

but it also has tons of wisdom about what to do with it in really constructive ways too.

The Bible recognizes that money is this paradoxical thing in the world. Yeah, so I became really interested in this paradoxical thing in the world.

Yeah, so I became really interested in this paradox

and was thinking about money a lot, meeting people

who think about money from a biblical point of view.

And through that, ran into these two guys, two young guys

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