“Three clear principles differentiate the scriptural view of our money from the “American Dream” view:
It’s not our money – it all comes from God.
We are not entitled to it but entrusted with it.
God expects us to use it in the interest of the Kingdom.
How about you? … Whose “game” are you in? Our own? Or God’s? We don’t have to be in full-time ministry to be in God’s game, but we do have to serve God full-time–as stewards of all that He has given us.
If we are in God’s game, we need to put the American Dream to death, because God’s game is a different game altogether.”
Richard Stearns, president of World Vision in The Hole in Our Gospel (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2009) 207-209.