Seminar: Finances and the Bible

Pastor Denis serves in a large Moscow church, graduate of Moscow Institute of Public Administration. He presented the given topic in a broad Biblical and life context, taking into account modern realities. During the Soviet atheistic era, believers had to remain faithful to God in conditions of constant persecution and oppression. Now, believers are faced with other, no less difficult circumstances and serious trials.

How can we preserve our Christianity in conditions of freedom? How can we not violate the principles of Biblical ethics in business relations? How not to lose your Christian dignity while working in this or that business community? What is the correct attitude to money, profit, income, without falling into the worship of wealth?

The seminar covered a range of such questions. Denis cited positive and negative examples from the Bible for discussion and orientation. King Solomon did not ask God for wealth, but wanted to acquire wisdom. God gave him special wisdom, and great wealth to boot. Balaam fell into sin, loving the wages of unrighteousness.

Today, endless advertising tries to firmly tie a person to transient values ​​and momentary pleasures. Instead of a good-quality product, we are often given a counterfeit. The danger of exchanging the eternal, imperishable for the temporary, empty and vain lies in wait for a Christian at every step.

How can one protect oneself from such a disaster? Denis Kutuzov reminded those present of the Biblical means of protection. Learn to be content with little, not to take out loans for the sake of fashionable material acquisitions, how to smell a fake a mile away, to avoid cooperation with immoral business partners, to exclude the receipt of income from the sale of harmful things, products, not to keep false accounting records for the purpose of tax evasion.

“If you want to live peacefully, in peace with God and with people, keep watch over your desires, serve God, the interests of the Kingdom of Heaven, and not money,” noted Denis.

"Serve God, not money" is a truly Christian life motto. Especially relevant in our time, when the ideology of unbridled consumerism has become a fashionable trend.