That's just one aspect of it. Money is just a real uncomfortable topic for people, but I'm going to talk about money today. If you're already turning me off because what I understand from research is that many people, for instance, who are unchurched think that that's all the church wants from them is their money. That isn't the case. But it is my responsibility, our responsibility as pastors to talk about what God teaches us, about every aspect of scripture and one of the aspects of scripture that God teaches us about is what our money does to us.
Money is a spiritual matter.
Jesus talked more about money than any other subject. Jesus only goal was to help people to understand who God was and how we could grow closer to God and how we could represent God in the world and therefore I have to believe that there' s something about what we do with our money that gets in the way of our relationship with God unless we understand God's perspective. We all have seen that happen. I know of twin brothers who were inseparable during their entire life, high school, post-high school. They started a business together.