Richie Rich - Church Elder?
"The rich man takes a great deal of pains to get an estate together, and sits brooding upon it, but never has any comfort nor satisfaction in it; his projects to enrich himself by sinful courses miscarry and come to nothing. Let us therefore be wise in time--what we get to get it honestly, and what we have to use it charitably, that we may lay up in store a good foundation and be wise for eternity." M. Henry Jim Wallis in his recent book "God's Politics" asks a penetrating question. He inquires in the first paragraph of the first chapter of the book: "How did the faith of Jesus come to be known as pro-rich, pro-war, and only pro-American?" I don't fully suscribe to Wallis's perspective, but I think he raises valid points (God corrects imbalances by contrary imbalances--in this case Right and Left Wings). I am not discounting the dangers of living by the sword or nationalistic messianism, yet I think of the three, Wallis's comment about the