It is one of the great weaknesses in the ministry as well as in the congregation. In Luke's Gospel, chapter sixteen, verses one to thirteen, we have a marvelous lesson in stewardship. Stewardship here involves those temporal things of life, over which we have control, and for which we are responsible. This teaches us that if we are unfaithful as stewards in the temporal things of life over which God has given us control, that God will not impart to us the spiritual riches. The mammon of unrighteousness is, without question, legal tender.
Legal tender has to do with time.
We cannot take it with us when we die. Simply by translating it out of the natural kingdom to the heavenly Kingdom. All money given to the extension of the work of Christ, is translated from the natural kingdom to the heavenly, and our riches in eternity are reckoned by the percentage translated. It is not the gross amount given that counts, it is the percentage. The widow who cast in the mite, gave a greater percentage than the others, and received the Lord's commendation.