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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....

availability, freedom, that his radical obedience to God alone enables: he can respond to the needs of others because he lives within the gift of being that comes from God. The Jesus of the Gospels shows us that the sharing of possessions in the fullest sense requires the simplicity, the purity of heart, that wills one thing.
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