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Sharing Possessions: What Faith Demands is unavailable, but you can change that!

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....

We began thinking about the use of possessions in the Christian life by looking at Luke-Acts, to see if we could derive a clear mandate from one New Testament writing. Our failure to do so pushed us to think in a more fundamental way about what it means to “have” something in the first place, what this has to do with being human (being spirits in limited but expressive bodies), and how it fits in with our other perceptions of reality. This
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