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Repudiating Greed - Part 1

The Bible for Today with John Stott

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The End of the Poverty of the World

Poverty is a standing rebuke and an utter disgrace to the rest of the human community. The ultimate solution to this appalling poverty requires macro economic experts. What shall be our attitude to money, to material possessions in the light of this widespread poverty? Well, ephesus was an opulent city at the time that paul was writing. And timothy was working in one of the churches of ephesus. So what posision should the ephesian christians take? What possession should you and i take? There is both materialism, which is a preoccupation with material things, and on the other hand, asceticism,. Both of them are incompatible with christian faith

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