“You remember among the Franks, whole armies were sometimes given baptism at one stroke, and many warriors went into the water with their right hands held high so that they did not get wet. Then they could say, “This hand has never been baptized,” and they could swing their battle axes just as freely as ever. The modern counterpart of that partial baptism is seen in many people who have been baptized, all except their pocket-books. They held these high out of the water.”
Halford Luccock as recounted by Randy Frazee in The Connecting Church 2.0: Beyond Small Groups to Authentic Community (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013) 134.
Has your pocket-book been baptized? Has it been cleansed of old man, pre-Christian thinking? Have you instead embraced the red letters of Jesus?
Jenni and I began really wrestling with this back in 2009 and it continues to emerge in conversations. It took us a good six months to muster the courage to re-align our thinking and practice linked to money with that which is Christian rather than what is accepted in this culture or even in the church today.
Why talk about this now? Someday each of us will give an account to God.