Sharing Possessions: What Faith Demands (Biblia.com)

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Respected scholar Luke Timothy Johnson challenges Christians to change the way they regard their worldly goods. He writes, “this book is written as an exercise in theological reflection on one of the knottiest questions imaginable: the connection between being a Christian and the way we own and use things.… When we turn to thinking about money and possessions, we find ourselves in murky waters....

existence, he could respond “Yes.” Now he responded with jubilation: “I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes; yea, Father, for such was thy gracious will” (Matt. 11:25–26; Luke 10:21). And then he responded in agony, “not what I will, but what thou wilt” (Mark 14:36). The poverty of Jesus is not to be found first in his lack of material possessions, for he and his followers seem to have received

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