How Should a Christian Think About Money?
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
4.8 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Did you know that There are over 2000 verses in the Bible about money? Pastor Adriel Sanchez gives a scriptural overview on money and shares why so many of us struggle believing Jesus's promise that "it is more blessed to give than to receive" (Acts 20:35).
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| 1:08.8 | Did you know that there are over 2,000 verses in the Bible about money? |
| 1:12.6 | I think one of the biggest struggles we have as Christians in the West is thinking biblically about money. |
| 1:16.6 | Now this is a sensitive topic. |
| 1:18.6 | On the one hand, you have the heresy of the prosperity gospel. |
| 1:21.6 | Those prosperity preachers who tie temporary blessings to Christian faithfulness. |
| 1:26.6 | They teach that if you have enough faith, |
| 1:29.0 | God will give you health, wealth, and numerous other blessings for your obedience to him. |
| 1:33.1 | They're on TV, and frankly, they give Christianity a really bad name. On the other hand, |
| 1:37.2 | you have pastors who are afraid to talk about money because we don't want to be like that. We don't |
| 1:41.0 | want to come off like those prosperity gospel guys. We have to be careful that in our condemnation of the prosperity gospel, we don't shy away from addressing that. We don't want to come off like those prosperity gospel guys. We have to be careful that |
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