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So, who will trust you with true riches?

• Using money as a means rather than an end
• "...revolutions in military affairs are...connected to transformations in the constitutional order (of nations)...it will be crucial to...provide orderly and peaceful means of reflecting the popular will. Otherwise, the...market-state will be reduced to the market itself. This will invite revolt."Philip Bobbitt, The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History
• "The central point in recognizing the emergence of the market-state is...to emphasize the importance of developing public goods...because that is precisely what the market (alone) will not do." (emphasis mine) Bobbitt
• PUBLIC GOODS: loyalty, civility, trust in authority, respect for family life, reverence for sacrifice, regard for privacy, admiration for political competancy, and more. Bobbit, quoting Michael Walzer, "The Concept of Civil Society," in Toward a Civil Global Society, ed. Micahel Walzer (Berghahn Books, 1995), n. 342.

• Where do we find these "PUBLIC GOODS?"
• "You are the salt of the earth...[y]ou are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds..." Matthew 5:13-16

• Builders wanted: see the Carpenter
• "This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear Children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth."1 John 3:16-18
• St. John's words have particular impact for Christians in the U.S.A.
1. The gospel we preach should be motivated by love: God's love for us, our love for him because he first loved us, and our love for fellow believers, our neighbor, and our enemy, too. This requires that our response to endemic needs in developing nations has to account for believers in those nations and work outward from there.
2. Love is defined by action, not feeling: Jesus laid down his life for us; we should "lay down our lives," too, i.e., live for a higer purpose than self-interest.
3. Doing this is mere rhetoric unless it includes sharing material wealth with fellow believers, and others, who are in need, especially by empowering them with opportunity to create indigenous wealth.
4. This applies globally, transcends all borders, nationalities and ethnic identities: wherever in the world the church is with health wealth, and wisdom, it must utilize all in a missionary enterprise that creates new health, wealth, and wisdom in other places in the world where it shares the gospel and builds Jesus' church.Please continue at, Life at the Intersection of Privilege & Responsibility

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