The Kingdom Of God Is A Place Of Abundance
What the loaves and fishes really tell us about God’s Kingdom
People always have a problem when a well-known Christian is wealthy. We see it over and over again. This pastor drives that car. That pastor lives in that house or neighborhood. Whether Christian or not, pastors are always being judged on their wealth.
This seems unusual to me because we don’t judge professional athletes, politicians, or CEOs on their wealth. It is almost as if everyone expects Christians to be poor.
I know when I was in college I went to Italy for a summer. While touring through the great churches of the culture and the Vatican there was something inside me that felt so unsettled by the ornate decor in some of these buildings of worship.
What happens for many people is they expect Christians to be poor because they think Jesus was poor.
After all, he traveled around from town to town with very little. His disciples held other jobs at times and received gifts from the churches they were starting to help support them. So, we assume that they were all poor.
What if they weren’t though? What if the wealth of the Kingdom of God was being manifested around them all the time, but it wasn’t shown to the rest of us in the way that we…
