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Questions Week 17, Day 1

by David Joynt on August 20, 2017


 LUKE 16:10-16

 

The question of Christianity and capitalism draws some extreme responses. Some insist that Jesus’ radical simplicity is incompatible with the excesses of capitalism. Doesn’t capitalism cultivate discontent with our material status so that it can inflame our desire for the next experience and latest gadget? Is unbridled competition not a form of self-interest? Others see capitalism as an outgrowth of Christianity and a boon to the world. A third group just separates faith and business. This week, we’ll take a look at the ways genuine Christian belief should shape our economic outlook and behavior.

 

 

How do you connect faith and economics?

 

 

Read our passage and sense its countercultural challenge.

 

FAMILY TIME—

How well do people share in your family?

What holds people back?

 

 

Tags: capitalism, faith economics

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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