“The total consecration of money to God is a prophetic act because it announces the last days. It is an element of the kingdom of heaven in the midst of us, announcing the greater and final reality of God’s kingdom. It is an element of the kingdom of heaven because it means that God’s grace is worth giving up everything for. But this renunciation does not mean leaving things to go their own way; it does not in any sense mean that money is given back to mammon. It is rather a surrender into God’s hands, and thus it is a reintegration. For ultimately reintegration is what lies ahead for money, when the power of money admits its submission to Christ.”
Jacques Ellul in Money and Power (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 1984) 115.