William F. Stapleton

We live in two worlds, it has been said.  Those of us who belong to Christ are left here in the world to be God’s agents of change and reconciliation, but we live by a whole different set of standards in relation to how we conduct business.  Ours are a higher set of standards with little room for compromise.  And yet, when each of us came into the Kingdom, we were already indebted and already part of the kingdom of this world.  The change of allegiance, the transition that occurs, is bought and paid for by Jesus’ blood.  However we must walk out the change in our own lives.  This is dilemma we face, particularly in relation to handling finances.  Will we continue to work according to the wisdom of the world and just ask God to bless it anyway?  Or will we begin anew, to understand and follow the biblical principles?  This third installment deals with the redeeming or re-marking of wealth, to make it productive in the Kingdom and the provision of God.