The Sermon on the Mount teaches us, amongst other things, that living out of and into Jesus' Kingdom vision — a vision of whole-person flourishing — transforms and renews our approach to money, resources, and all material things!

We need wisdom/hokhmah IF we’re going to rightly live into the Story of God and IF we’re going to receive money as the good gift that it is, using it in a way that rightly worships God as the gift giver and promotes the righteousness and justice he calls us to.

We are all formed by a story. In the book of Deuteronomy, we see that if Israel remembers God’s story—and their’s of redemption—they can negate the Canaanite practices so that the land takes on the character/quality of Israel’s faith (i.e. revealing God’s true story).

“God is continually giving gifts to his people. Whenever he does, the most appropriate response on our part is to thank him for them, worship him through them, make good use of them, and seek more of them—and in doing so, we will avoid earning them, spurning them, or idolizing them.” — Andrew Wilson