mammon

 

Luke 16:1-13 was the Gospel for Sunday and I preached on it reluctantly.  I don’t like preaching about money but if Christ talked about it more than almost anything else in the Gospels I guess I need to get used to it.  The idea of “unjust”, and “righteous” money is interesting.

Luther wrote –

“Our property will not help us into heaven, when we fail and have to leave everything on earth, but when we make of unrighteous mammon righteous, that is, when we bring mammon from the wrong to the right use; and when we help the poor … we demonstrate our faith and witness that we are upright Christians and heirs of eternal life