Is living on $80 000 considered a “wartime lifestyle” these days? (My parents lived through world war II and they recall saving up ration coupons of rice and sugar to make a special rice pudding) These were two unfortunate sentences to link!!!

Which just reflects what is “rich” is a very relative / elastic term.

I’m just intrigued how one can earn $200 000. (Only so I can give $120 000 away of course and struggle by on a mere $80 000.) Any ideas?

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religious imagery in culture

give that a go

I don;t think that money is a neutral thing either - people say it is to justify their pursuit of it. We live in a world where it is impossible (for most of us unless you live in a village in Africa or South America) to live without money and so we are tainted all the time by the call for more money to do more things to achieve more and to live better.

I say let’s challenge the consumer driven mentality of this world that we find ourselves living in. There is a cafe in melbourne (three of them actually) Lentil as Anything that doesn;t charge a set price for it’s meals or drinks - it asks people to struggle with their own consciences in order to arrive at a suitable payment - Where are the Christian places doing this?

Money is not good - anything that divides people by virtue of how much fo it youi have is not good - and if you don;t ahve much money you can’t do as much as other people who have heaps of it - in fact the less you have the less influencial you are - name one person living in poverty who is in any position of power in the western world?

Money is not neutral.

#15 Good comment abtruth.

God designed us to share his creation but in our rebellion we want to own his creation and be master of it ourselves and money helps us do that.

Money is not a neutral thing… it is more powerful than sex,power, material things, position, fame etc because money offers them all… good things can be done with money of course but as humans we are (in our natural state of rebellion) unable to do the right thing with it separate from God’s grace… it is only ever through Gods grace that i will ever do any good with what i have.