From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked. Luke 12:48b
“We are God’s economic delivery system for serving the least and the lost. As the living, breathing body of Christ, we are the only hands, feet, and wallet God has to accomplish God’s work within the world…We are the only bank account that God has. God needs our feet, our hands, our money, and our trust…I suggest we start living like it, generously and openhandedly releasing “our” resources into God’s purposes for the world Christ loves.”
Mike Slaughter in “God’s Economic Delivery System” in Giving: Growing Joyful Stewards in Your Congregation, vol. 19 (Richmond: ESC, 2017) 7.
To enhance my teaching, I often host panel discussions with local experts. One of my panelists this week, was Dr. Ho Chan Hwang, executive director of the CCFK, the partner organization to ECFA in Korea.
Right after our class discussion on life in God’s economy yesterday, which highlighted the role of Christians as the hands and feet of Christ, Dr. Hwang exclaimed that we must be faithful to fulfill our responsibilities by reminding the students: “Whose money is it anyway?”
As everything belongs to God, with Slaughter we must ask ourselves if we live like we believe we are God’s economic delivery system. With the great needs in the world among the lost in the least, do we actually live in such a way that we demonstrate that God can trust us to manage His wallet?