Hello, everyone, and happy Friday.

As we close out this work week, Pastor John joins us remotely over Skype.

And our question today is from a listener named Wesley who has a really important work

question.

Though it's unclear, I don't know where Wesley works, what field he's in, but Wesley

writes this, hello, Pastor John.

Recently my boss offered me and all my colleagues, a cash bonus for anyone generating

new referrals.

I felt immediately lured into the proposition, but my question is this, should the straight

up offer of cash be a good motivator for our work?

Can the desire for more money, in this case, a bonus, be desirous in a virtuous way?

Or is this simply the love of money inside of me?

How can I tell the difference?

One of the most basic things to say is that money only has value in a culture where it

can be exchanged for something else.

The paper we call bills or money, or the pieces of metal that we call coins, or the checks

that stand for money, or the electronic impulses on your phone that turn into money somehow.

All of that is relatively worthless.

It only has value because we live in a culture in which there is an agreed upon use that

can be made of these different coins and different bills.

You can exchange them for things and for services that you value, or you can give them away,

because you believe that what others will exchange them for is something you really value

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